The World Fellows

Founder and Director, Youth and Women's Leadership Centre 

Orzala Ashraf Nemat is an emerging Afghan scholar and a prominent civil society activist working to empower local communities to find peaceful solutions to conflict. In 2010, she founded the Youth & Women's Leadership Centre. Previously, as the founder and chair of a leading Afghan NGO, Humanitarian Assistance to the Women and Children of Afghanistan, Ashraf Nemat devoted twelve years to establishing and delivering training programs to Afghan women and children in refugee communities in Pakistan and in Afghanistan. Under the Taliban regime, she launched underground literacy and health education programs for women and girls. Ashraf Nemat is increasingly involved in political advocacy and development at the national level and serves on the boards of various women’s and human rights networks in Afghanistan.

 

Media

Investing in Women's Education in Afghanistan, Yale Journal of International Affairs, April 2011

How Obama Can Improve the World, by a collection of World Fellows, The Huffington Post, December 24, 2008.

Netcast (audio):  In the Taliban's Shadow, November 18, 2008.  Click here for Netcast >>