Sahar Fetrat
Sahar Fetrat is a Researcher with the Women’s Rights Division at Human Rights Watch. Sahar is a feminist activist born in Afghanistan, lived in Iran and Pakistan as a young refugee during the first Taliban regime. She grew up in Kabul as her family returned to Afghanistan in late 2006 when she was 10. Sahar encountered feminist activism in her teenage years in Kabul and decided to incorporate her feminist views into storytelling through documentary filmmaking and writing. In 2013, Sahar’s documentary on street harassment, “Do Not Trust My Silence,” won the first prize in Universo-Corto Elba Film Festival. Sahar has previously worked with the education unit of UNESCO in Afghanistan, advocating for literacy education for women around the country. She has gained first-hand experience working with children who have been victims and survivors of war through volunteering with the Solace for the Children initiative. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the American University of Afghanistan (2018) and a Master’s degree in Critical Gender Studies from Central European University (2020). She is currently completing her second Master’s degree in Conflict, Security, and Development at the War Studies department of King’s College London. Sahar’s research interests include feminist decolonial theory and praxis, affect theory, gender and conflict, women and/in war, and masculinities.
Articles Authored
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September 17, 2024
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August 27, 2024
Taliban’s Relentless Assault on Afghan Women’s Bodies, Autonomy
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August 26, 2024
It’s Not a Dystopian Novel — It’s Afghanistan Today
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November 30, 2023
Women’s Rights Activists Under Attack in Afghanistan
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August 16, 2023
Bread, Work, Freedom—Afghan Women's Two Years of Resistance
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February 6, 2023
Afghan Professor Jailed After Protesting Restrictions on Women
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December 20, 2022
Afghan University Women Feared This Dark Day
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October 12, 2022
In Afghanistan, Resistance Means Women