Wed Oct 28 · 6pm
Gender Apartheid: Power and Oppression in Afghanistan
A panel on the rights of women and girls in Afghanistan under Taliban rule, including limits on schooling, work, movement and public life. Sima Samar, Afghanistan’s Minister of Women’s Affairs from 2001 to 2003 and former chair of its Independent Human Rights Commission, joins human rights activist Metra Mehran, founder of the Afghanistan Justice Archive. Fatema Z. Sumar, executive director of Harvard’s Center for International Development, moderates.