Sima Samar is a globally renowned women’s and human rights activist and doctor from Afghanistan. She established the Shuhada Organization that operated more than one hundred schools and dozens of hospitals and clinics in the country. She served as Minister of Women’s Affairs of Afghanistan and is the former chair of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission. She was formerly the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Sudan and a member of the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Internal Displacement. She is currently a visiting scholar at Tufts University’s Fletcher School and is based in the USA. Sally Armstrong is an award-winning author, journalist and human rights activist.