
“I Will Never Be Just a Wife and a Mother”: How Mutabar Khushvaktova Became the Voice of Uzbekistan’s Environmental Challenges
She had never planned to become an eco-activist. It all began with the birth of her daughter and a kind of anxiety almost every mother can understand. This is the honest story of Mutabar Khushvaktova – how a young journalist turned her personal fear for her child’s future into her life’s work, and why she had to face hate, pressure and public resistance along the way.



