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Sima Samar's Biography

Dr. Sima Samar, OC (born 4 February 1957) is the Chairperson of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) and, since 2005, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Sudan.

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      Think! Will the Nobel for Literature be ever given to someone in the hope that he/she will start writing good books? To someone who’s not even aspiring to be a writer? Not possible even in these days of open media when anyone can report from anywhere – irrespective of his/her writing credentials, right? Well, Barack ...

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    OSLO (AP) - President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples," the Norwegian Nobel Committee said, citing his outreach to the Muslim world and attempts to curb nuclear proliferation. The stunning choice made Obama the third ...

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  • News Source: Toronto Star | 17 days ago
    Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai inspects the guard of honour upon his arrival at the presidential palace for his inauguration in Kabul, Nov. 19, 2009. Afghanistan will control its own security within five years and prosecute corrupt officials,
  • News Source: Simi Valley - Moorpark Examiner | 25 days ago
    His outgoing military adviser, Abdul Rashid Dostum , has been accused of overseeing the suffocation deaths of up to 2,000 Taliban prisoners during the 2001 U.S.-led invasion. The term warlord is applied to the commanders of the Afghan resistance who
  • News Source: United Press International | about 1 month ago
    Europe's democracies are a strange lot. As the European Union, they are experts at economic soft power. Politically, they spend too much time bickering among themselves...Radio-Free Europe pondering how to unite diverging modus vivendi.

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  • Blog Source: jonathanturley.org | about 1 month ago
    As usual he's being vague about the details, so I have a suggestion for him. How about the Shuhada Organization which was founded by Dr Sima Samar, MD, one of the also-rans for this year's prize.” ...
  • Blog Source: transmontanus.blogspot.com | about 1 month ago
    While everyone's wheezing about Obama's unlikely win, P.J. Tobia reports from Kabul that "the big story is about the nominee who didn't win the prize. That would be Dr. Sima Samar, an incredibly courageous Afghan woman who has risked ...
  • Blog Source: unambig.wordpress.com | about 1 month ago
    Sima Samar, an incredibly courageous Afghan woman who has risked her life for much of the past decade, treating women and girls in Afghanistan and Pakistan.” [...] Now 50 years old, she graduated from a Kabul medical school in the ...

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