 Beginning in the early 2000s , Hakim became an activist , with a focus on education . After the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami , she went on numerous humanitarian trips to <unk> . She later founded the Christine Hakim feature , a foundation to promote public education about autism . She has urged the government to eliminate <unk> regarding autism , calling the refusal to accept <unk> students in public schools " a violation of human rights " . 
