Homeyra Karimivahed

Academic Background: Homeyra Karimivahed’s academic background has been primarily focused on physics, she graduated Master of Geophysics (Earthquake major) and second master of Regional Studies. She has also spent considerable time studying Middle East policy and politics, especially focused on peace, justice, and gender issues.

Work Experience: She is a member of international Chemical Weapons Convention Coalition (CWC Coalition) and has worked as the CWC Coalition coordinator for over five years now in organizing victims of chemical warfare to participate in, and speak at, the annual conferences of the CWC in The Hague, The Netherlands.

She is the second victim’s generation of Chemical weapons of the first civil human community and the daughter of a family who have lost 11 members in Sardasht’s 1987 Chemical Bombardment (8000 victims). Since 2013 she has been working voluntary as a member of International committee and Women’s committee of ODVCW (The Organization for Defending Sardasht Victims of Chemical Weapons) NGO. She has also spoken out strongly in favor of more medical understanding and support for victims of chemical warfare and has delivered several moving plenary presentations at the CWC meetings.   

Homeyra’s aim: Efforts to promote a universal peace, creating a world free of WMDS and raise the public awareness about the long-term effects of using unconventional weapons.