Aziza Siddiqui

Aziza Siddiqui is Women’s Rights Coordinator with Action Aid, an Afghan NGO. She travels into Afghanistan’s greatly underserved countryside to conduct first-hand research on the situation of rural women. Currently, she is educating women in Afghanistan’s Northern Provinces on their rights. Ms. Siddiqui organizes training meetings on decision-making in numerous remote villages. Ms. Siddiqui is also conducting research on violence against girls in public high schools and how this may impede their access to education. Despite personal threats against her for her groundbreaking research on gender, Ms. Siddiqui forges ahead with her investigation into the lives of women around the country and uses that information as a platform to draw attention to the needs of women in Afghanistan.