Lanja Khawe

Lanja Khawe (born 1993) is a Kurdish lawyer, writer and feminist. She is the founder of the Sofia Association and the social media campaign #KurdistanWomenPower, also founder of Pana community to prevent and reduce suffering of homelessness without any gender based discrimination.

Biography Khawe was born in January 1993 in Sulaymaniah, South Kurdistan within the political borders of Iraq. A lawyer and human rights activist, Khawe has worked with Kurdish women who are survivors of sex trafficking and domestic violence. She founded the Sofia Association in 2016 to provide a book delivery service by bicycle for women and girls who are unable to buy them. According to Khawe, the project encourages literacy and access to knowledge, so that women can understand the rights they have more fully. She is a contributor to the anthology, Kurdish Women's Stories, edited by Houzan Mahmoud.