Overview
- Resham Fatma announced this week that she has been selected for the UK government-funded Chevening Scholarship and will pursue an MSc in Gender, Development and Globalisation at the London School of Economics.
- She was attacked with acid in 2014 at about 17 years old after rejecting a marriage proposal and has since told her story publicly as part of her recovery and advocacy.
- Fatma completed a BSc (Hons.) in Physics at Jamia Millia Islamia and a master’s in Politics and International Relations at Jawaharlal Nehru University, and she received the National Bravery Award in 2015.
- In 2023 she founded the Ebrah Foundation to help girls and young women access education and careers, and she has said her husband encouraged her to apply for Chevening.
- Observers say the scholarship will raise visibility for survivor-led work on gender violence and education policy while media coverage continues to report limited new information about legal accountability for the 2014 attack.