دربارهٔ مرکز

Dr. Sima Samar

یک پزشک و مدافع سرشناس حقوق بشر از افغانستان. او در سال ۱۹۸۹ سازمان شهدا را تأسیس کرد و برای افغان‌ها و پناهندگان، با تمرکز بر زنان و دختران، شفاخانه‌ها، کلینیک‌ها و مکاتب ساخت. او نخستین وزیر امور زنان افغانستان و معاون رئیس ادارهٔ موقت افغانستان بود و از سال ۲۰۰۲ تا ۲۰۱۹ نخستین رئیس کمیسیون مستقل حقوق بشر افغانستان بود. در سطح بین‌المللی به عنوان گزارشگر ویژهٔ سازمان ملل در مورد وضعیت حقوق بشر در سودان و عضو پنل عالی‌رتبهٔ دبیرکل سازمان ملل در مورد بی‌جاشدگی داخلی خدمت کرد. او برندهٔ جایزهٔ رایت لایولیهود و دیگر افتخارات بزرگ است و ریاست هیئت مدیرهٔ مرکز حقوق بشر افغانستان را بر عهده دارد.

Mohammad Farid Hamidi

به عنوان لوی څارنوال (دادستان کل) افغانستان خدمت کرد و اصلاحات بخش عدلی افغانستان را رهبری نمود. او که عضو کمیسیون مستقل حقوق بشر افغانستان و لویه جرگهٔ اضطراری بود، همچنین ریاست هیئت مشورتی رئیس‌جمهور افغانستان در مورد تقرری‌های سیاسی را بر عهده داشت و بر رعایت حقوق بشر نظارت می‌کرد. او معاون رئیس مرکز حقوق بشر افغانستان است.

Mohammad Musa Mahmodi

یک وکیل سرشناس حقوق بشر از افغانستان که بیش از ده سال به عنوان رئیس اجرایی کمیسیون مستقل حقوق بشر افغانستان خدمت کرد. او که فلوی جهانی ییل در سال ۲۰۲۰ و پژوهشگر حقوق در دانشکدهٔ حقوق ییل است، رئیس اجرایی مرکز حقوق بشر افغانستان است و برنامه‌ها، فعالیت‌ها، منابع بشری و بودجهٔ آن را مدیریت می‌کند.

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Dr. Suraya Dalil

Dr Suraya Dalil brings a unique blend of health policy and diplomacy to her work, grounded in a lifelong commitment to human rights, social justice, and accountability. Over more than 30 years, her career has spanned frontline primary care, health system leadership, public policy, parliamentary engagement, and multilateral diplomacy. Dr Dalil holds a medical degree from Kabul Medical University (1991) and a Master of Public Health from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (2005). As Afghanistan’s Minister of Public Health from 2010 to 2014, she led political and operational reforms that significantly expanded access to health services and improved the quality of care nationwide. From 2015 to 2019, she served as Afghanistan's Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva and Ambassador to Switzerland, where she was lead author of Afghanistan’s voluntary pledges for UN Human Rights Council membership and headed the country’s delegation to the 2019 Universal Periodic Review. From 2020 to 2025, she served as Director of the WHO Special Programme for Primary Health Care at WHO Headquarters, where she helped position primary health care as a core programmatic priority, led the documentation of country implementation experiences, oversaw the design of a primary health care leadership course for senior government executives, and supported the establishment of the Global Coalition on Primary Health Care secretariat. Her earlier work with UNICEF in Afghanistan and Somalia shaped her enduring commitment to equity, service, and measurable impact. Dr Dalil is a proud mother of three daughters, whose curiosity and strength continue to inspire her resolve and resilience.

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Dr. Soraya Rahim Sobhrang

A medical doctor by training, human-rights advocate and activist from Herat, Afghanistan. She studied medicine at Kabul University, trained in management, women's rights, gender and psychology in Germany, and also studied political science and international relations in Kabul. After the Bonn conference she served as Technical and Political Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Women's Affairs. In 2005 she joined the women's rights protection and development unit of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) as an adviser, and in January 2006 she was selected as a Commissioner, responsible for protecting and developing women's rights. Her work emphasised eliminating all forms of violence against women, improving access to justice and the judicial system, and building institutions and networks that advocate for women's rights. In 2010 she received the Front Line Award for Human Rights Defenders at Risk.