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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.
Fawzia Karim Firoze who was a founding trustee of the Acid Survivors Trust was recognised as an International Woman of Courage in 2024. [ 7 ] The organisation's local partner Acid Survivors Foundation Pakistan campaigned hard and played a critical part in helping to bring about The Acid Control and Acid Crime Prevention Bill in 2011 [ 8 ] which ...
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.
A Yazidi woman who was kidnapped aged 11 in Iraq by the Islamic State group and subsequently taken to Gaza has been rescued after more than a decade in captivity there, officials said. The 21-year ...
Awardees: (Back row) Ajna Jusić, Rina Gonoi, Fatou Baldeh, Rabha El Haymar, Benafsha Yaqoobi, Fawzia Karim Firoze, Volha Harbunova, Agather Atuhaire. Front row to left: Fariba Balouch, Fátima Corozo and Benafsha Yaqoobi. The story of El Haymar's struggles was filmed by Deborah Perkin and the resulting work was titled "Bastards". [4]
A. Sundus Abbas; Shatha al-Abbousi; Hadeel Abdel Aziz; Eva Abu Halaweh; Fartuun Adan; Tabassum Adnan; Laxmi Agarwal; Zahra Mohamed Ahmad; Aneesa Ahmed; Erika Aifán
Awardees: (Back row) Jusić at far left, Rina Gonoi, Fatou Baldeh, Rabha El Haymar, Myintzu Win, Fawzia Karim Firoze, Volha Harbunova, Agather Atuhaire. Front row to left: Fariba Balouch, Fátima Corozo, Benafsha Yaqoobi. Twenty-five years after she was born, she met Monika Hauser in Sarajevo. [2]
Fariba Baloch in the 18th annual International Women of Courage Award Ceremony at the White House in Washington. Fariba Balouch is an Iranian human rights activist based in London.