Promoting Women’s Rights in the Muslim World

Issue Date January 1997
Volume 8
Issue 1
Page Numbers 157-66
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About the Author

Mahnaz Afkhami is executive director of the Sisterhood Is Global Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, an international group devoted to the protection of women’s rights around the world. She was a minister of women’s affairs in prerevolutionary Iran and is the author of Faith and Freedom: Women’s Human Rights in the Muslim World (1995).

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