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Sima Wali is a leading Afghan human rights advocate and the Chief Executive Officer of Refugee Women in Development (RefWID), Inc., an international non-profit institution focusing on women in conflict, post-conflict reintegration and human rights. Wali is also vice president and treasurer of the Sisterhood Is Global Institute and works as an international advocate for the rights of refugee and internally displaced women.〔(Sima Wali ) Carnegie Council〕 She was a speaker at the Ford Hall Forum in 1999 and 2009, and she has been a participant in the Dropping Knowledge project. Wali was one of only three female delegates〔http://www.un.org/events/women/2002/wali.htm〕 at the Bonn Agreement, which formed a new Afghan government, following the fall of the Taliban in 2001. Wali served as a representative of King Mohammed Zahir Shah's Rome delegation. At Bonn, she was instrumental in creating the Ministry of Women's Affairs, nominating Afghan women to serve in the interim government of Afghanistan and ensuring that gender-sensitive language was incorporated into the final peace agreement.〔http://www.droppingknowledge.org/bin/user/profile/6451.page〕 That same year, Wali served as the chief organizer of the Afghan Women's Summit for Democracy in Brussels, Belgium. In 1989, Wali was awarded the Ms. Foundation's Gloria Steinem Women of Vision Award. In 1999, she won Amnesty International's Ginetta Sagan Fund Award. Wali was also the recipient of the Women of Vision Award from the Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children in 1992. She was conferred honorary doctorate degrees by both Smith College and Shenandoah University in 2002 and 2003, respectively. In June 2003, Wali accompanied Women's Edge co-founder and executive director Ritu Sharma for a week's visit to Afghanistan to observe and monitor the conditions of women. It was one of several trips she made to her homeland and to Afghan refugee camps in Pakistan, where she led numerous training and empowerment seminars. Wali co-authored ''Invisible History: Afghanistan's Untold Story'' (2009) with Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould. Gould and Fitgerald also produced the documentary film ''The Woman in Exile Returns: The Sima Wali Story'' with RefWid, Inc. It tells the story of Sima Wali's return to Kabul in October 2002 after 24 years in exile and her efforts to help in the rebuilding efforts.〔(The Woman in Exile Returns: The Sima Wali Story ) Grailwerk〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sima Wali」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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