Laleh Osmany

[2] The campaign was set up in protest against the fact that in Afghanistan, women traditionally had no right for their names to be used in public.

[3] This custom meant that women's names did not appear on official documents such as birth or death certificates, and not even on her tombstone.

[6] Other supporters of Osmany's work include Farhad Darya, the singer-songwriter Aryana Sayeed, and the MP Maryam Sama.

[6] However the change in law was not welcomed by some, who see it as disrespectful to Afghan values or an action taken to appease the USA.

[1] The Taliban, who is 2020 were in talks with the Afghan government about power-sharing, oppose the inclusion of women's names on identity cards.