Hameeda Hossain

Hameeda Hossain (née Akhund; born 1936) is a Bangladeshi human rights activist and academic.

She has published many books and articles relating to human rights and women's issues in Bangladesh, in Islam, and worldwide.

[1] She is a founding member of Ain o Salish Kendra, a legal aid and human rights organization.

In 1969, in the then East Pakistan, along with economist Rehman Sobhan she founded English-language monthly current affairs magazine, Forum.

[2] Hameeda was born on December 28, 1936 to a Sunni Muslim family of Akhands in Hyderabad, Sindh (present-day Pakistan).

Hossain (in the middle) at the Orientation Ceremony for the 2nd batch of Notre Dame University Bangladesh (2015)
Hameeda and Kamal among the NDUB faculty members