Basira Taheri, Afghanistan
Bio: Basira is a civil society activist and defender of women’s rights who has been active since 2013 for equality and defence of women’s rights in Afghanistan. She believes that women’s rights have been neglected in Afghanistan for many years and that one should fight to achieve equality. Violence against women and violation of human rights in Afghanistan, has led her to establish the “Women Managers Network” in cooperation with a number of women in Herat, Afghanistan. Basira had to escape from Afghanistan with the takeover of Taliban in 2021. Basira now lives in Italy and her activism and hard work continues. In 2022 She who founded an online school (wisdom house) for Afghan girls inside Afghanistan and since October 2023 she works as project coordinator for Fondazione Pangea – an International Italian NGO working with women and for women.

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