Name: Mazar-i-Sharif
Address: Mazar-i-Sharif, Persia & Central Asia

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Sima Samar

Afghan physician and human rights advocate, born on 3 February 1957 in Jaghori, Ghazni province, who took her medical degree at Kabul University in 1982. After her husband was arrested and disappeared she fled to Pakistan in 1984, and in Quetta founded the Shuhada Organization and Clinic in 1989 for Afghan refugee women and girls. She became Afghanistan's first post-Taliban Minister of Women's Affairs (2001–2003), chaired the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission (2002–2019), served as UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Sudan (2005–2009), and received the Right Livelihood Award in 2012.

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