4 Quotes & Sayings By Mahnaz Afkhami

Mahnaz Afkhami is an Iranian author, lawyer, human rights activist, translator and the co-founder of the The National Council of Resistance of Iran. She has written five books in Persian, including A Dying Shah?, which was published in the West by the New York Times. Her book "The Making of a Dissident" is in its second edition in Iran. She has appeared in several Iranian documentaries on human rights issues in Iran.

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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
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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
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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. Mahnaz Afkhami