A year after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, prominent Afghan rights activist Sima Samar is still heartbroken over what happened to her country. Samar, a former minister of women’s affairs and ...

For decades, women in Afghanistan have been among the first and easiest victims of fundamentalist fascism and imperialism. In ...

The Taliban government in Afghanistan is drawing renewed outrage over a new law banning women’s voices in public, forcing them to completely cover their bodies and faces out of the home, and more.

Dr. Sima Samar, an Afghan activist and human rights advocate, spoke at an International Women’s Day event on March 8 sponsored by The Fletcher School. Samar, a visiting scholar at Fletcher, spoke ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A year after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, prominent Afghan rights activist Sima Samar is still heartbroken over what happened to her country. Samar, a former minister of ...

2009-03-27T22:26:31-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/8a1/284922-m.jpgDr. Sima Samar reviewed the human rights conditions in Afghanistan, especially the ...

Head of Afghanistan's Human Rights Commission, Dr. Sima Samar. She was appointed to the position in July. Previously, she served as the country's first Minister for Women's Affairs, appointed by the ...

FILE - Sima Samar, a prominent activist and physician, who has been fighting for women's rights in Afghanistan for the past 40 years, gives an interview to The Associated Press, at her house in Kabul, ...