Sima Samar

Sima Samar (Persian سیما سمر, Sima Samar DMG; born February 3, 1957 in Ghazni ) is an Afghan doctor and politician.

Life

Sima Samar belongs to the third-largest ethnic group in the country, the Persian-speaking, Shiite Hazaras. She studied medicine at Kabul University ( graduated 1984). Her husband was arrested during the Russian occupation and since then is considered lost. She fled to Pakistan, where he worked in an Afghan refugee camp as a doctor. In 1987, she founded in the border town of Quetta a hospital for Afghan women and children. In 1989, she joined the organization " Shuhada ". Even during the reign of the Taliban, they continued this work for the medical care of women and children as well as the establishment of schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Due to the Bonn Agreement, she was selected in 2001 as Minister of Women's Affairs in the Afghan government and identified as one of five Deputy President Hamid Karzai. She held this office from until her resignation in 2002.

In June 2002, the Afghan Human Rights Commission was formed and Sima Samar its chairman.

Awards

Sima Samar was repeatedly nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.