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What Goes Around Comes Around Lynne O’Donnell talks to Sima Samar, who has written a book about her extraordinary life of service to the people, and particularly the women, of Afghanistan. Let down by their own leaders, and by the international community, she says, now they have to start again on their own terms. Have a listen:

What Goes Around Comes Around Lynne O’Donnell talks to Sima Samar, who has written a book about her extraordinary life of service to the people, and particularly the women, of Afghanistan. Let down by their own leaders, and by the international community, she says, now they have to start again on their own terms. Have a listen:

🎓 Christoph Burgmer im Gespräch mit Sima Samar (*1957). Die Ärztin Sima Samar war ab 2001 Ministerin für Frauenangelegenheiten in Afghanistan und ab 2002 Vorsitzende der afghanischen Menschenrechtskommission. 2021, kurz vor der Machtübernahme der "Neuen Taliban" floh Sie in die USA. Sie ist Trägerin des Alternativen Nobelpreises 2012. Sima Samar spricht 2012 über die Perspektiven Afghanistans nach dem vorgesehen Rückzug der ISAF Truppen. Ein historischer aufschlussreicher Blick auf eine politische Situation eines vom Westen zunächst eroberten und im Folgenden fallen gelassen Landes. 🎓 Sima Samar in conversation with Christoph Burgmer . Sima Samar, a doctor, was Minister of Women's Affairs in Afghanistan from 2001 and Chair of the Afghan Human Rights Commission from 2002. In 2021, shortly before the "New Taliban" took power, she fled to the USA. In 2012, Sima Samar talks about the prospects of Afghanistan after the planned withdrawal of ISAF troops. A historical, revealing look at the political situation of a country first conquered by the West and subsequently abandoned. سیما سم ر له کریسټوف برګمر سره په خبرو کې. سيما سمر، داکتر، از سال ٢٠٠١ وزير امور زنان در افغانستان و از سال ٢٠٠٢ رئیس کمیسیون حقوق بشر افغانستان بود. در سال ۲۰۲۱، اندکی پیش از به قدرت رسیدن "طالبان جدید"، او به ایالات متحده آمریکا فرار کرد. در سال 2012، سيما سمر در مورد چشم انداز افغانستان پس از خروج برنامه ريزي شده سربازان آي اس اف صحبت مي کند. نگاهی تاریخی و آشکار به وضعیت سیاسی کشوری که برای اولین بار توسط غرب فتح شد و پس از آن رها شد. #afghanistan #taliban #nato Follow us & Subsribe to our newsletter Audio Archive Podcast - Go against the Grain is self financed. All podcasts are free of charge. Help us to keep Audio Archive Podcast free with a donation here. Thank you for your support.

In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Sima Samar about her life and work for women’s rights. They discuss her reasoning for writing her memoirs, history of modern Afghanistan, impact of Islam, and the rule of the Taliban. They talk about her work in medicine and human rights advocacy, women’s rights in Afghanistan, becoming Vice President and Minister of Women’s Affairs of Afghanistan. They also discuss her work on the human rights commission, being nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009, women’s rights around the world, the future of Afghanistan, and many more topics. Sima Samar is a human rights advocate, Nobel Peace Prize nominee, and global influential female figure. She received her MD from Kabul University Medical College. Since 2002 she has been the Chairperson of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) which holds human rights violators accountable and sets the human rights agenda in Afghanistan. She is also the Chairperson of the Commission for the Prevention of Torture and was the Chairperson of the Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions (APF). Prior to her appointment as the chair of AIHRC, she was the Vice President of the Interim Administration of Afghanistan and the first Minister of Women’s Affairs. She served as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Sudan between 2005 and 2009 and has been appointed as a member of the United Nation’s Secretary-General’s High-Level Advisory Board on Mediation. Samar also served as member of High Level Panel for Internal Displacement. Her commitment to her community is evident through her NGO Shuhada Organization’s work in operating 55 middle and high schools for girls and boys in Afghanistan, and three schools in Quetta, Pakistan for Afghan refugees. In addition to this Shuhada operates 12 clinics and three hospitals in Afghanistan and one hospital in Quetta for refugees, dedicated to providing education and healthcare, particularly focusing on women and girls. Website: https://shuhada.org.af/ Get full access to Converging Dialogues at convergingdialogues.substack.com/subscribe

Appointed Vice Chairperson of the Afghan Interim Administration and Minister of Women's Affairs in 2001, Dr. Sima Samar headed the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission for 17 years. We now have her on our podcast to talk to us about the situation of women and minorities in Afghanistan.