Sanjida Islam Choya

Sanjida Islam Choya (; born 2001) is a Bangladeshi human rights activist. In 2022, she was named as one of the BBC's 100 Women, in response to her ongoing work challenging child marriage in Mymensingh District.

Biography Choya was born in 2001 in Jhaungura, a village in Achargaon Union, Nandail Upazila, Mymensingh District. Her father worked for the local government and her mother was a housewife.

As a child, Choya became a member of the Child Forum on World Vision, where she learned about issues facing children in Bangladesh, including child marriage; over 50% of Bangladeshi women are married before the age of 18. Choya's mother had been a victim of child marriage when she was 15, which prevented her from completing her studies.

Following this incident, Choya and six other pupils established Ghashforing , a non-governmental organisation that initially focused on gathering information about local child marriages in Mymensingh and reporting these to the relevant authorities. By 2019, it was estimated that Ghashforing had prevented at least 50 weddings of underage children from going ahead. After graduating, Choya studied management at Gurudayal Government College in Kishoreganj and researched child marriage. Other residents of Mymensingh have threatened Choya, believing her activism goes against their culture; in 2019, Choya was threatened with bamboo sticks and chased from a wedding she was attempting to disrupt.