Fawzia Koofi
Fawzia Koofi is an Afghan politician, a human rights advocate, a writer, and a women’s rights activist.
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Gulghotai Bezhan
Gulghotai (Gula) Bezhan OAM has been working to empower Victoria, Australia’s Afghan community and more specifically Afghan women and children for more than 20 years through her work in community services and international aid.
Dr Nouria Salehi
In addition to her ongoing research in nuclear medicine, Nouria has travelled to Afghanistan many times, at the risk of her own life, to establish science teacher training programs, apprenticeships, literacy programs, and a range of other constructive initiatives, to drive change and empower young people and women and their communities.
Yasmeen Ghauri
Yasmeen Ghauri has since paved the way for women of color in the modelling industry.
Sonita Alizadeh
At the age of 16, Sonita Alizadeh found out she was to be sold into marriage. Propelled to do something by this experience and the experiences of other women around her, the young Afghani woman turned to rap music. Alizadeh now uses her music and her convictions to end child marriage and to fight for the rights of women and girls all over the world.
Abedo
When the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979, Abedo was among the many who fought back.
Hazrat Babajan
Pashtun Muslim saint, considered by her followers to be a Sadguru (”true guru”) or Qutub (in Sufism, the perfect human being, a spiritual leader who has a divine connection with God and passes knowledge on).
Soraya Tarzi
Queen Soraya Tarzi of Afghanistan pushed to modernise the country from the 1920s onward, promoting freedoms and rights for women.
Mah Chuchak Begum
Mah Chuchak Begum was a wife of the second Mughal emperor Humayun who took over Kabul and rode into battle with her troops.