Farida Afridi was a Pakistani activist who advocated for women and social change was hunted down and killed a few days ago, while traveling from her home in Tehsil Jamrud Ghundi Kali to her office in Hayatabad. She was 25.

The story is here, and Ophelia Benson has more here.

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