User:Mastora Popalzai

Mastora Popalzai is an Afghan women's rights activist and a teacher with over 20 years of experience.[1] In 2006, she succeeded in creating women association in Mazar e Sharif, who had helped many women in the city to get education which the information being published about them by the Ministry of Education.[2] As of 2010 she serves as one of three female members of the Mazar e Sharif Provincial Council, and as of 2012 she started speaking about forced and child marriages in Balkh province. Popalzai also intervened in the case of a girl rejected by her family for refusing marrying an old man, successfully stopped the marriage although the provincial governor had discouraged her from doing so.[2] Her other work for women's rights includes creating networking groups for women, leading the fight for women's education in rural area of the city, and expanding educational opportunities for young girls and women with little or no education[4]

She has faced threats of kidnapping and death for her work, and had to change her address many times.[4][2]