Quotes by Mahnaz Afkhami

About Mahnaz Afkhami:

Mahnaz Afkhami is Founder and President of Women's Learning Partnership (WLP), the Executive Director of the Foundation for Iranian Studies and the former Minister of Women's Affairs in Iran's pre-Revolution government. She has lived in exile in the United States since 1979.
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Rights and empowerment are interconnected: unless a substantial number of women in a community come to believe that they have rights and demand to exercise them, right remains an abstraction.

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The new information technology, indifferent to human suffering, does not accommodate humane needs unless we harness it and make it do so.

Mahnaz Afkhami

Women’s status in society has become the standard by which humanity’s progress toward civility and peace can be measured.”-Architects of Peace: Visions of Hope in Words and Images

Mahnaz Afkhami

Author Bio

  • NameMahnaz Afkhami
  • DescriptionActivist
  • BornFebruary 2, 1941
  • CountryIran
  • ProfessionPolitician; Human Rights Activist