# Sima Samar (@sima-samar)

Sima Samar (Dari: سیما سمر; born 3 February 1957) is a human rights advocate, activist and medical doctor within national and international forums, who served as Vice President of Afghanistan in the interim government of Hamid Karzai Minister for Women's Affairs from December 2001 to 2003. She is the former Chairperson of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) and, from 2005 to 2009, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Sudan.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from Sima Samar's public record._

## Topics

- [Evidence and Limits](/@sima-samar/evidence-and-limits.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Documented Work](/@sima-samar/documented-work.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Field and Context](/@sima-samar/field-and-context.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://id.loc.gov/search/?q=Sima%20Samar&q=cs%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fid.loc.gov%2Fauthorities%2Fnames
- blog: https://search.worldcat.org/search?q=Sima%20Samar
- blog: https://www.si.edu/search?edan_q=Sima%20Samar

## Ask this twin

Reads need no token:

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "sima-samar", "question": "…"}`.