MAHNAZ AFKHAMI

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Afkhami at the 2011 Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit (Asa Mathat / Fortune Live Media)

Afkhami with others at the Women’s Learning Partnership

Afkhami at the UN Special Preparatory Committee for the first International Women’s Conference (Mexico City / 1975)

Afkhami (right) with Farah Pahlavi & Mikhail Gorbachev at the Challenge Future Conference (Germany / 2007)

Iran → USA 1979-Present

Mahnaz Afkhami was Iran's Minister of Women's Affairs from 1975-1978, but was forced to flee due to the 1979 Islamic Revolution. She has spent her whole life, in and out of exile, advocating for women's rights.

MAHNAZ AFKHAMI

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