Shirin Ebadi
Iranian Nobel-winning human rights activist
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Sabaa Tahir
Pakistani-American author
Narges Mohammadi
Nobel-winning Iranian human rights activist and writer
Nadia Anjuman
Afghan poet murdered by her husband
Nadia Murad
Nobel-winning Iraqi human rights activist and survivor of ISIS
Fawzia Koofi
Fawzia Koofi is an Afghan politician, a human rights advocate, a writer, and a women’s rights activist.
Khadija bint Khuwaylid
As the first wife of Muhammad, Khadija bint Khuwaylid is honored by Muslims as one of the “Mothers of Believers” and is credited as the first convert to Islam following her husband’s first vision.
Dr Shaheen Aziz
Pakistani chemical engineer
Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
Vociferous in the fight for equality, she remains a feminist role model and inspiration through the ages, planting the seeds for an end to traditionalism and the birth of female liberation in India and Bangladesh.
Ayesha Malik
Pakistani judge