{"id":45034,"date":"2022-05-31T14:30:09","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T05:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/may\/31\/tanzila-khan-disability-rights-campaigner-tells-young-women-the-world-is-yours"},"modified":"2022-05-31T14:30:09","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T05:30:09","slug":"tanzila-khan-disability-rights-campaigner-tells-young-women-the-world-is-yours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45034","title":{"rendered":"Tanzila Khan: disability rights campaigner tells young women \u2018the world is yours\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Winner of the inaugural Amal Clooney Women\u2019s Empowerment award says she saw mainstream culture did not represent her, so she created her own space<\/p>\n<p>Tanzila Khan does not like people feeling too sorry for themselves \u2013 or for her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t like sob stories or tragedies,\u201d said Khan, who is a disability and women\u2019s rights campaigner in Pakistan. \u201cI\u2019m not saying they don\u2019t exist \u2013 we can all face adversity \u2013 but I think we need a more positive approach to solving problems. I wanted to present people with disabilities in a more positive way.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/may\/31\/tanzila-khan-disability-rights-campaigner-tells-young-women-the-world-is-yours\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winner of the inaugural Amal Clooney Women\u2019s Empowerment award says she saw mainstream culture did not represent her, so she created her own spaceTanzila Khan does not like people feeling too sorry for themselves \u2013 or for her.\u201cI don\u2019t like sob stories &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3099,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1020,59,984,60,79,61,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disability","category-global-development","category-menstruation","category-pakistan","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-womens-rights-and-gender-equality","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3099"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45035,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45034\/revisions\/45035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}