Founding Member Profile – Sima Samar

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Name: Sima Samar
Position: Regional Representative
Organisation: Peace Women Across the Globe

Brief Profile:

  • Doctor from Afghanistan
  • Laureate of the Right Livelihood Award (2012).
  • The first Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Women’s Affairs in Afghanistan from 2001 to 2002
  • Chair of the first Human Rights Commission in the history of Afghanistan
  • Founder and current chair of the Shuhada Organisation which focuses on livelihood projects, human and women’s rights, and literacy campaigns for women.