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Afghan women's rights activist

Wazhma Frogh (Dari: واشما فروغ) is an Afghan women's rights activist.^[1][2]

Life

In the eighth grade, Frogh tutored her landlord's children, so that the landlord would reduce her rent and she and her sisters could thus afford school.^[3] At age 17, she exposed poor living conditions and abuses of women in Afghan refugee camps in Pakistan while interning at a Pakistani newspaper.^[3] From 1992 to 2001, she organized community-based empowerment programs for women in Afghanistan while she herself lived in Peshawar, returning to Afghanistan in 2001.^[4] In 2002 she finished the first gender assessment of women’s conditions in Nuristan, Afghanistan.^[4] Frogh also supported the creation of Women Development Centers in the Kandahar, Ghazni, Herat, and Parwan provinces of Afghanistan.^[4]

Frogh was the co-founder and as of 2013 the director of the Afghan organization Re Wazhma Frogh - NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security BYR