Sima Samar
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Sima Samar is a Hazara doctor and human rights defender who served as Afghanistan's first Minister of Women's Affairs and received the Right Livelihood Award.
Sima Samar is a medical doctor and human rights advocate, born in Jaghori, Ghazni.1 She served as Afghanistan's Minister of Women's Affairs from December 2001 to 2003.1
Her honours include the 1994 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership and the 2012 Right Livelihood Award.1 Her memoir is Outspoken: My Fight for Freedom and Human Rights in Afghanistan.2
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Wikipedia, Sima Samar. ↩ ↩2 ↩3
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Publishers Weekly, Outspoken: My Fight for Freedom and Human Rights in Afghanistan. ↩