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Fawzia Karim Firoze (Bengali: ফওজিয়া করিম ফিরোজ) is a Bangladeshi advocate at the Supreme Court of Bangladesh. She was recognised as an International Woman of Courage in 2024. She has supported changes to the law that garment workers, those effected by acid attacks and by sexual harassment.
The International Women of Courage Award, also referred to as the U.S. Secretary of State's International Women of Courage Award, is an American award presented annually by the United States Department of State to women around the world who have shown leadership, courage, resourcefulness, and willingness to sacrifice for others, especially in promoting women's rights.
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International Women of Courage Award, 2014.United States First Lady Michelle Obama and Deputy Secretary Higginbottom with Fatimata Touré.. Fatimata Touré is a women's rights activist and the head of the Regional Forum on Reconciliation and Peace in Gao, Mali. [1]
Princess Fawzia-Latifa of Egypt (born 12 February 1982), daughter of King Fuad II of Egypt; Fawzia Koofi (born 1975), Afghan politician and women's rights activist; Fawzia Mirza, Pakistani-American actress; Fawzia Peer, South African politician; Fawzia Rhoda, South African politician; Fawzia Amin Sido, a Yazidi woman who lived in Palestine ...
Aziza Siddiqui in 2007. Aziza Siddiqui (Pashto: عزيزه صديقي; born c. 1983) is an Afghan women's rights activist. [1] [2] She was the Women's Rights Coordinator with the Afghan NGO Action Aid, where she conducted research on the situation of rural Afghan women and educated them about their rights, as well as organized trainings on decision-making, despite being personally threatened ...
Claire Ouedraogo (born ) is a nun and an anti female genital mutilation (FGM) activist in Burkina Faso.She became the President of the Songmanegre Association for Women’s Development (Association féminine songmanegre pour le développement) and one of her country's Ambassador of Peace.
Syed Muhammad Fazlul Karim was born in 1935, in the village of Charmonai in Barisal, Bengal Province. [5] He belonged to a Bengali Muslim family who were the hereditary Pirs of Charmonai, with his grandfather, Sayed Amjad Ali, being a descendant of Ali, the fourth Caliph of Islam. His father, Syed Muhammad Ishaq, was the first Pir of Charmonai ...