Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Frogh
Afghanistan
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Independent
activist
Post
Graduate
Fellow
at
University
of
Warwick
,
UK
Wazhma
Frogh,
the
recipient
of
the
International
Women
of
Courage
Award,
is
an
advocate
for
realization
of
women’s
human
rights
in
development
in
Afghanistan.
Frogh
has
devoted
the
last
decade
of
her
life
to
mobilization
for
social
change
to
benefit
women's
rights
in
Afghanistan,
focusing
on
such
issues
as
women
and
security,
legislative
reform
including
the
recent
Elimination
of
Violence
against
Women
Law
and
the
Shia
Personal
Status
Law
in
Afghanistan,
and
women’s
political
participation.
She
is
a
leading
expert
on
the
issues
of
gender-‐
based
violence
and
has
worked
tirelessly
on
the
elimination
of
violence
against
women
in
Afghanistan.
Frogh
started
her
career
at
the
age
of
17,
working
with
the
most
vulnerable
women
and
children
in
refugee
camps
in
Peshawar,
Pakistan,
bringing
the
voices
of
the
camps
to
the
national
and
international
arenas
though
her
media
reporting.
Later
on,
she
stepped
into
women
empowerment
through
community-‐based
approaches,
and
mobilized
women’s
development
projects
during
the
Taliban
regime.
While
these
efforts
were
organized
in
Peshawar,
Pakistan,
Frogh
traveled
frequently
back
to
Afghanistan's
most
insecure
provinces
to
carry
out
her
work.
After
2001,
she
returned
permanently
to
Afghanistan
and
continued
her
women
empowerment
efforts
through
working
with
development
projects
with
the
UN
and
international
organizations.
She
completed
the
first
Gender
Assessment
of
women's
conditions
in
Nuristan,
Afghanistan
during
2002,
just
after
the
formal
fall
of
the
Taliban
government.
She
supported
the
establishment
of
Women
Development
Centers
in
four
provinces
of
the
country,
including
Kandahar,
Ghazni,
Herat
and
Parwan
provinces,
mobilizing
women
and
creating
leadership
and
livelihood
opportunities.
In
2006-‐2007
her
efforts
reached
more
than
215
local
organizations
in
different
parts
of
the
country
to
create
gender
sensitive
development
interventions
under
the
Initiative
for
the
Promotion
of
Afghan
Civil
Society
with
Counterpart
International.
She
has
also
worked
with
international
donors
in
Afghanistan
to
direct
funding
and
resources
towards
effective
women
rights
projects
and
provided
strategic
direction
in
that
regard
to
CIDA,
Canadian
International
Development
Agency.
Frogh
also
has
vast
specialized
training
and
experience
in
gender
and
peace
building
in
Afghanistan.
She
has
participated
in
the
Women
and
Public
Policy
Program
at
Harvard
University
and
the
Law
and
Leadership
Program
at
George
Washington
University,
both
in
the
United
States.
Frogh’s
professional
career
is
complemented
by
her
volunteer
civic
engagement.
She
has
volunteered
her
time
to
the
International
Rescue
Committee
in
Pakistan,
and
serves
as
a
Member
of
the
Afghan
Women's
Parliamentary
Network
and
the
Afghan
Women’s
Network.
Wazhma
Frogh
has
been
working
with
civil
society
of
Afghanistan
in
the
past
years
to
mobilize
them
for
advocacy
and
lobbying
for
women's
and
children's
rights.
She
led
an
advocacy
group
of
over
35
local
and
international
organizations
in
Kabul
to
advocate
against
child
abuse
and
child
rape
in
the
country
and
has
taken
the
issue
to
the
national
government
to
take
effective
measures.
This
group
pressured
the
government
to
take
more
effective
and
aggressive
action
on
child
rape
and
to
examine
the
hidden
realities
of
child
sexual
abuse
that
is
still
considered
to
be
a
cultural
taboo
in
Afghanistan.
A
frequent
representative
and
spokesperson
to
the
regional
and
international
arenas,
Ms.
Frogh
is
an
outspoken
advocate
on
improving
women’s
participation
in
the
peace
processes
and
conflict
resolution
mechanisms
in
Afghanistan
and
recently
has
been
selected
to
participate
in
a
series
of
regional
peace
dialogues
between
Afghan
and
Pakistan
women
to
discuss
common
areas
of
concern
and
activism
for
regional
security
and
stability.