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Freshta Karim (born 5 April 1992), is an Afghan children's rights activist and television presenter. She is the founder and director of Charmaghz, a Kabul-based NGO dedicated to promoting education of children in Afghanistan.

Early life and career
Karim was born in Kabul, in 1992, about three weeks before the beginning of the Civil War. She spends her early life in Pakistan as a refugee, before coming back to Kabul. At the age of 12, she contacts a local television channel and is hired as a presenter in a program dedicated to children. During her teens, she works for various local radio and television channels.

Karim studied Political Sciences at Panjab University, after which she completed a Master's degree in Public Policy at the University of Oxford (Somerville College).

After completing her studies in 2016, Karim came back to Afghanistan and founded Charmaghz, a Kabul-based NGO dedicated to promoting education, litteracy and critical thinking in children, in a country traumatised by decades of war. The organisation transforms disused public buses into mobile libraries, where children learn how to read and write, take part in artistic activities and story readings.

After the Fall of Kabul in August 2021, Karim seeks asylum in the United Kingdom, where she currently resides. On November 17 2021, Karim makes an address at the UN security council where she declares: “We need to make the effort to see the human in others, hear their suffering and their stories…Today I start this journey by declaring that no one is an enemy.”

Until 2023, Karim acted as a senior advisor for the Malala Fund. In 2023, she was elected as a board membre for BBC Media Action.

Recognitions and awards
In 2019, Karim was awarded the Max-Herrmann-Preis, and was nominated in the Forbes 30 Under 30 selection. In 2021, she was featured in the BBC 100 Women and was one the finalists of the European Parliament's Sakharov Prize, along with ten other Afghan women.