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Mahnaz Afkhami is a prominent figure in the political and social sectors. Born on January 14, 1941, her specific profession and category are not well-documented.

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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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Book:Faith and Freedom: Women’s Human Rights in the Muslim World

Source: Faith and Freedom: Women’s Human Rights in the Muslim World

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

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Book:Leading To Choices: A Leadership Training Handbook For Women

Source: Leading To Choices: A Leadership Training Handbook For Women

“The connection between women's human rights, gender equality, socioeconomic development and peace is increasingly apparent.”

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Author:Mahnaz Afkhami

“Women's empowerment is intertwined with respect for human rights.”

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Author:Mahnaz Afkhami

“In the future, human rights will be increasingly a universal criterion for designing ethical systems.”

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Author:Mahnaz Afkhami

“The end of the Cold War removed the immediate causes of whole destruction but not the threat contained in our knowledge. We must tame this knowledge with the ideals of justice, caring, and compassion summoned from our common human spiritual and moral heritage, if we are to live in peace and serenity in the twenty-first century.”

“...Any definition of a culture of peace must address the problem of achieving justice for communities and individuals who do not have the means to compete or cope without structured assistance and compassionate help.”

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Author:Mahnaz Afkhami

“We have the ability to achieve, if we master the necessary goodwill, a common global society blessed with a shared culture of peace that is nourished by the ethnic, national and local diversities that enrich our lives.”

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Author:Mahnaz Afkhami

“We Have the Ability to Achieve, If We Master the Necessary Goodwill, a Common Global Society”

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Author:Mahnaz Afkhami

“Women, who are a majority of the peoples of the earth, are indispensable to the accumulation of the kind of social capital that is conducive to development, peace, justice and civility.”

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Author:Mahnaz Afkhami

“As we move into the twenty-first century, women's status in society will become the standard by which to measure our progress toward civility and peace.”

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Author:Mahnaz Afkhami

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Born: January 14, 1941
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Quotes: 11

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Faith and Freedom: Women’s Human Rights in the Muslim WorldRelated source material

Leading To Choices: A Leadership Training Handbook For WomenRelated source material

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