Soraya Rahim Sobhrang
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Soraya Rahim Sobhrang (Persian: ثریا رحیم صبحرنگ) is an Afghan politician, physician, and human rights activist serving as the commissioner of women's rights of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission.
Sobhrang was born in Herat and completed medical school at Kabul University. She later emigrated to Germany. Sobhrang returned to Afghanistan in 1981 to work as the technical and political deputy minister at the Ministry of Women's Affairs.[1] In March 2006, she was named by president Hamid Karzai as the women's affairs minister but her candidacy was not approved by the House of the People.[2] She received the 2010 Front Line Award for Human Rights Defenders at Risk.[3]
References
- ^ "Soraya Sobhrang | Gunda-Werner-Institut". Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung. Retrieved 2021-08-29.
- ^ انوری, رامين (2006). "کابينه جديد افغانستان به پارلمان معرفی شد". BBC Persian (in Persian). Retrieved 2021-08-29.
- ^ "Case History: Soraya Rahim Sobhrang". Front Line Defenders. 2015-12-17. Retrieved 2021-08-29.
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