Sahar Fetrat
{{Short description|Afghan screenwriter}}
Sahar Fetrat is an Afghan activist, screenwriter and documentary filmmaker.{{Cite news |date=2021-12-07 |title=BBC 100 Women 2021: Who is on the list this year? |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-59514598 |access-date=2023-01-28}} Sahar was born in Afghanistan and lived in Iran and Pakistan as a young refugee during the first Taliban regime.
Biography
Sahar's family went into exile when she was one year old, and grew up in refugee camps in Iran and Pakistan during the first Taliban regime.{{Cite web |last=Development |first=PodBean |title=28. Sahar Fetrat - On the plight of women and girls in Afghanistan {{!}} The Voices of War |url=https://www.thevoicesofwar.com/e/sahar-fetrat/ |access-date=2023-01-28 |website=www.thevoicesofwar.com |language=en}}
She graduated in 2018 in Business Studies at the American University of Afghanistan and obtained a master's degree in Gender Studies at the Central European University in Budapest in 2020.{{Cite web |title=Sahar Fetrat |url=https://www.hrw.org/about/people/sahar-fetrat |access-date=2023-01-28 |website=Human Rights Watch |language=en}}
Sahar Fetrat worked in Afghanistan for UNESCO Education Services advocating for women's education throughout the country and an Assistant Researcher at the Women's Rights Division of the international human rights organization Human Rights Watch.{{Cite web |title=War Studies student is one of BBCs most inspiring and influential women of 2021 |url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/war-studies-student-is-one-of-bbcs-most-inspiring-and-influential-women-of-2021-1 |access-date=2023-01-28 |website=www.kcl.ac.uk |language=en-GB}}{{Cite web |title=Afghan University Women Feared This Dark Day - Afghanistan {{!}} ReliefWeb |url=https://reliefweb.int/report/afghanistan/afghan-university-women-feared-dark-day |access-date=2023-01-28 |website=reliefweb.int |language=en}}
Awards
References
{{Reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Fetrat, Sahar}}
Category:Afghan women's rights activists
Category:Afghan education activists
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:21st-century Afghan women
Category:21st-century Afghan people
Category:American University of Afghanistan