Wazhma Frogh

Wazhma Frogh is an Afghan–Canadian women's rights activist.

Life In the grade 8, Frogh tutored her landlord's children, so that the landlord would reduce her rent and she and her sisters could thus afford school. At age 17, she exposed poor living conditions and abuses of women in Afghan refugee camps in Pakistan while interning at a Pakistani newspaper. In 2002 she finished the first gender assessment of women’s conditions in Nuristan, Afghanistan. However, he continued to threaten her and her sisters and, although the U.S- based Institute of Inclusive Security invited Frogh to spend six to 12 months as a visiting fellow, her visa was denied.

She supports the U.S. ratification of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, which Afghanistan ratified in 2003.

Frogh received a 2009 International Women of Courage Award. in the 2026 municipal election.