October 2009
2 posts
Affirmative Action Much?
Meet the People Who Were Passed Over by the Nobel Foundation
Sima Samar, women’s rights activist in Afghanistan: With dogged persistence and at great personal risk, she kept her schools and clinics open in Afghanistan even during the most repressive days of the Taliban regime, whose laws prohibited the education of girls past the age of eight. When the Taliban fell, Samar returned to Kabul...