About Laleh Osmany

Laleh Osmany is a women’s rights activist who was born in 1992 in Afghanistan; she later studied Islamic Law at Herat University. In 2017 she co-founded the #WhereIsMyName social media campaign. Osmany’s contributions to women’s rights in Afghanistan were acknowledged when she featured on the BBC’s 100 Women list published in 2020. In 2021 she was awarded Afghanistan’s Lady of the Year and is a member of the UN Labor Committee.