article_snippet.sent: Selay Ghaffer, 32, is a women's rights activist and spokesperson for the Solidarity Party of Afghanistan -- a small but outspoken political party based in Kabul and twenty provinces that fights for issues such as democracy, social justice and women's rights.
article_snippet.sent: Ghaffer herself has been subject to threats because of Ghaffer work, received through emails and phone calls, at Ghaffer home and office.
article_snippet.sent: But Ghaffer says Ghaffer knew what Ghaffer was getting Ghaffer into.
article_snippet.sent: Ghaffer, however, believes this is the beginning of an uprising -- but Ghaffer says this needs to keep moving.
article_snippet.sent: Interestingly, it was a man in Ghaffer life that motivated Ghaffer to fight.
article_snippet.sent: I must say strongly that it was my father (who inspired me), who is not any more with me, because he... died three months ago," Ghaffer says.
article_snippet.sent: he always told me that women always suffered in this country," Ghaffer says, Ghaffer voice overcome with emotion.
article_snippet.sent: Ghaffer realizes how lucky Ghaffer is, Ghaffer adds, in a society where Ghaffer has witnessed men -- fathers and husbands -- oppressing women as opposed to being their role models.