Sima Samar

Nobel Peace Prize nominee Sima Samar, M.D., served from December 2001 to 2003 as Afghanistan’s first minister of women’s affairs and as deputy prime minister of the Afghanistan interim administration in December 2001. From 2005 to 2009 Samar was United Nations special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Sudan. She chaired the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission from 2002 to 2019. Samar is a distinguished fellow at the Fletcher School for International Affairs at Tufts University, Massachusetts, as part of the global Scholars at Risk program.