Pakistan's climate defender included in Time magazine's Women of Year
Ayisha Siddiqa became a climate and human rights defender after being a personal victim of climate change.


Pakistan's climate defender Ayisha Siddiqa has been included in Time magazine's 2023 Women of the Year, calling them extraordinary leaders who are working toward a more equal world.
The mass circulation US weekly magazine will host its second annual Women of the Year Gala on International Women's Day, on Wednesday next, in Los Angeles.
Coming from a tribal community in Northern Pakistan, twenty-four year old Ayisha Siddiqa became a climate and human rights defender after being a personal victim of climate change.
She addressed the 27th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC (COP27) in Sharm El-Sheikh Egypt last year and shared her poem on climate change.

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