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Famous Hazara Human Right Advocate and Activist

Sima Samar was born in 3 February 1957, and is a Hazara woman's and human rights advocate, activist and a social worker within national and international forums, who served as Minister of Women's Affairs of Afghanistan from December 2001 to 2003. She is currently the Chairperson of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) and, from 2005 to 2009, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Sudan. In 2011, she was part of the newly founded Truth and Justice party. In 2012, she was awarded the Right Livelihood Award for "her longstanding and courageous dedication to human rights, especially the rights of women, in one of the most complex and dangerous regions in the world."

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I am an author, human rights activist, photojournalist and Cultural Practitioner from Afghanistan. I am the founder and former director of Asia Culture House, which was a non profit organization in Afghanistan. My photographs have been displayed in many exhibitions in Afghanistan, Europe, and the US. I maintain a human rights weblog, and a photography weblog and have reported and contributed with the Afghanistan Human Rights Home and many other websites as writer and Photographer.

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