Women as a leader-Dr Sima Samar (Afghanistan)Name-Shah Aafreen Mohammed Amin, Class-MCOM(Business management) part-2,semester-3,Subject-Organisational Behaviour.

About Dr Sima Samar Sima Samar (Persian: سمر (س+یما

(born 3 February 1957) She is a well known 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, since 2005, 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

Early life and education Samar was born in Jaghori, in Ghazni

Province of Afghanistan, on 3 February 1957. She belongs to the ethnic Hazara.

She obtained her degree in medicine in February 1982 Kabul University.

She practiced medicine at a government hospital in Kabul, but after a few months was forced to flee for her safety to her native Jaghori,

where she provided medical treatment to patients throughout the remote areas of central Afghanistan.

She was an active member Hazara group under the leadership of Baba ghts in Afghanistan; she is head of human rights commission in Afghanistan. Baba Mazari was a remarkable supporter of Women Rights

AS A DOCTOR In 1984, the communist regime

arrested her husband, and Samar and her young son fled to neighboring Pakistan.

She then worked as a doctor at the refugee branch of the Mission Hospital. Distressed by the total lack of health care facilities for Afghan refugee women,

she established in 1989 the Shuhada Organization and Shuhada Clinic in Quetta, Pakistan.

The Shuhada Organization was dedicated to the provision of health care to Afghan women and girls, training of medical staff and to education.

In the following years further branches of the clinic/hospital were opened throughout Afghanistan.

HER RETURN TO AFGHANISTAN After living as refugee for over

a decade, Samar returned to Afghanistan in 2002 to assume a cabinet post in the Afghan Transitional Administration led by Hamid Karzai.

In the interim government, she served as Deputy President and then as Minister for Women's Affairs.

She was forced into resignation from her post after she was threatened with death and harassed for questioning conservative Islamic laws, especially sharia law

HER CONTRIBUTION TOWARDS EDUCATION OF GIRLS IN AFGHANISTAN She is currently the head of

Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC).

She established Gawharshad Institute of Higher Education in 2010.

She is one of the 4 main subjects in Sally Armstrong's 2004 documentary Daughters of Afghanistan.

In the documentary, Sima Samar's work as the Minister of Women's Affairs and her subsequent fall from power is shown.

she established in 2010 an institute of higher education which called Gawharshad. this institute has attracted more than 1200 students in in a very short amount of its activities

S.SAMAR AS A SOCIAL WORKER OF WOMEN Dr. Samar publicly refuses to

accept that women must be kept in purdah (secluded from the public) and speaks out against the practice of wearing the burqa (head-to-foot wrap),

which was enforced first by the fundamentalist mujahideen and then by the Taliban. She also has drawn attention to the fact that many women in Afghanistan suffer from osteomalacia, a softening of the bones, due to an inadequate diet.

Wearing the burqa reduces exposure to sunlight and aggravates the situation for women suffering from osteomalacia

AWARDS Dr. Sima Samar has received numerous international

awards for her work on human rights and democracy, including:

1994 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership;

1995 Global Leader for Tomorrow from the World Economic Forum in Switzerland;

The 1998 100 Heroines Award in the United States; The Paul Grunninger Human Rights Award, Paul

Grunninger Foundation, Switzerland March 2001; The Voices of Courage Award, Women’s Commission for

Refugee Women and Children, New York, June 2001; The John Humphrey Freedom Award, Rights &

Democracy,Canada 2001; Ms. Magazine, Women of the Year on behalf of Afghan

Women, USA December 2001; Women of the Month, Toronto, Canada, December

2001; Best Social Worker Award, Mailo Trust Foundation,

Quetta, Pakistan March 2001; International Human Rights Award, International Human

Rights Law Group, Washington, DC April 2002;

AWARDS Freedom Award, Women’s Association for Freedom

and Democracy, Barcelona July 2002; Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, New York

October 2002; The Perdita Huston Human Rights Award 2003; Profile in Courage Award 2004; and One of A Different View’s 15 Champions of World

Democracy in January 2008 Peace Prize of the City of Ieper (Ypres) Belgium, 2008 Asia Democracy and Human Rights Award, December

2008 Honorary Officer of the Order of Canada, 2009 Right Livelihood Award, 2012 Mother Teresa Awards for Social Justice in November

2012. Honorary Doctorate from Salem State University in

May 2013 2013 Allard Prize for International Integrity, Finalist

award of CDN$25,000

CONCLUSION&REFERENCE DR SIMA SAMAR IS INDEED A LEADER BY HER SERVICE THAT SHE I

S PROVIDINDG TOWARDS SOCIETY , HER CONTRIBUTION IN ENCOURAGING EDUCATION OF WOMENS AN

D PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IS APPRECIABLE AND INCREDIBLE

FURTHER RAISING HER VOICE AGAINST TALIBANS FOR THE HUMAN RIGHTS AND EDUCATIONS OF WOMEN MAKES HER A POWERFUL WOMEN

THE SERVICE THAT SHE AS PROVIDED AS A DOCTOR EVEN AFTER BEING A REFUGEE IN PAKISTAN IS APPRECIABLE

SOLUTE TO SUCH LEADERS

REFERENCE:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sima_Samarhttps://

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