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DESCRIPTION:In collaboration with Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML)\, 
 the 91şÚÁĎÍř Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism (CHRLP) presents a 
 seminar in a series on Women's Rights in Afghanistan. The event will take 
 place at mcgill.zoom.us/j/86805686259\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n	Shukria Barakzai\, 
 former Member of the Wolesi Jirga\, lower house the National Assembly of A
 fghanistan\n	Her Excellency Roya Rahmani\, Afghanistan’s ambassador to the 
 US\n	Dr. Sima Samar\, women’s rights and human rights advocate\n\n\nWith re
 marks by Professor Homa Hoodfar (Concordia)\, and moderated by Professor V
 rinda Narain (91şÚÁĎÍř Law).\n\nShukria Barakzai was born and raised in Kabu
 l. She is from an educated Pashtun family. Her higher studies were paused 
 until after the fall of the Taliban\, and in 2003\, she earned a Bachelor’
 s degree in Archaeology and Geology from Kabul University. Shukria Barakza
 i was a member of the Wolesi Jirga. Barakzai has had many professions in h
 er life\, including teacher\, journalist\, editor and head of NGO’s. In 20
 03\, she started her political career when she was appointed to the Loya J
 irga to pass the new constitution. In 2004\, Barakzai was elected to the l
 ower house of the Wolesi Jirga\, the National Assembly of Afghanistan. She
  served until she was appointed by President Ashraf Ghani as Afghanistan’s
  Ambassador to Norway in late November 2015. Adamant on women’s rights\, s
 he used her position as Member of Parliament to bring light to certain iss
 ues concerning the rights of women. For example\, after her husband\, Abdu
 l Ghafoor Dawi\, took a second wife\, she began campaigning against polyga
 my\, trying to encourage women not to become someone’s second wife.\n\nHE 
 Roya Rahmani is Afghanistan’s first female ambassador to the United States
  of America. She is also non-resident Ambassador to Argentina\, Mexico\, t
 he Dominican Republic\, and Colombia. Previously\, she served as Afghanist
 an’s first female ambassador to Indonesia and was the country’s first accr
 edited ambassador to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). T
 he Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission awarded Rahmani the Bes
 t Human Rights Activist Award in 2010\, and Indonesia Tatler named her the
  People’s Ambassador in 2017. In 2019\, she was featured on TIME Magazine’
 s “100 Next List” as a “fierce advocate of peace on Afghan terms.” She has
  a Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering from 91şÚÁĎÍř\, and 
 a Master’s degree in Public Administration from Columbia University. She i
 s the mother of a young daughter\, and often speaks passionately about  th
 e importance of bringing women and youth into the democratic process.\n\nA
  Nobel Peace Prize nominee\, Dr. Sima Samar is a renowned human rights adv
 ocate and an identified global influential female figure who has dedicated
  her life to public service\, humanitarian work and women’s empowerment. S
 ince 2002\, she has been the Chairperson of the Afghanistan Independent Hu
 man Rights Commission (AIHRC)\, which holds human rights violators account
 able and sets the human rights agenda in Afghanistan. Alongside this\, Dr.
  Samar chairs the Commission for the Prevention of Torture\, and was the C
 hairperson of Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions (AP
 F). Prior to her appointment as the chair of AIHRC\, she was the Vice Pres
 ident of the Interim Administration of Afghanistan and the first Minister 
 of Women’s Affairs. Dr. Samar served as the United Nation’s Special Rappor
 teur on the situation of human rights in the Sudan between 2005 and 2009 a
 nd has newly been appointed as a member of the United Nation’s Secretary-G
 eneral’s High-Level Advisory Board on Mediation. Her Shuhada Organization 
 NGO operates 55 middle and high schools for girls and boys in Afghanistan\
 , and three schools in Quetta\, Pakistan\, for Afghan refugees.\n\n \n\n 
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LOCATION:Zoom: https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/86805686259
SUMMARY:Centering Women: Negotiating Peace in Afghanistan
URL:/law/channels/event/centering-women-negotiating-pe
 ace-afghanistan-329167
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