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Fareeda "Kokikhel" Afridi was a Pashtun feminist, a women's rights activist in Pakistan. In July 2012, at the age of 25, she was shot dead on her way to work.〔(Activist’s killing reverberates in Pakistan )〕〔(Woman NGO worker shot dead in Peshawar )〕 Afridi was born and raised in the Khyber tribal area, part of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), an impoverished semi-autonomous region in Pakistan's northwest, bordering Afghanistan. She graduated from university with a master's degree in gender studies. While still in school, with her sister Noor Zia Afridi, she founded the Society for Appraisal and Women Empowerment in Rural Areas (SAWERA), a women-run NGO promoting women's empowerment in FATA.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.asafeworldforwomen.org/partners-in-asia/partners-in-Pakistan/sawera.html )〕〔(Positive Pakistanis: Sister act )〕 Afridi was critical of the Pakistani government, the Taliban, and the patriarchal nature of Pakistani society.〔(Pakistani Women's Rights Activist Fareeda 'Kokikhel' Afridi Shot Dead in Peshawar )〕 In June 2012, she told journalists she was being threatened. Her friends and colleagues suspected the threats originated with FATA Taliban militants.〔 On 5 July 2012, as Afridi left her home in the Khyber tribal area to go to work in Hayatabad a suburb of Peshawar, she was shot once in the head and twice in the neck by two motorcyclists, who afterwards escaped. She died in hospital. Condemning the murder at a protest camp organized by the Aurat Foundation along with Peshawar Press Club and Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain stated: She was the second female in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to be targeted by Taliban extremists. ==See also== * Women in Pakistan 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fareeda Kokikhel Afridi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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