Det Udenrigspolitiske Nævn 2011-12, Udenrigsudvalget 2011-12
UPN Alm.del Bilag 203, URU Alm.del Bilag 188
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Vice Minister for Administration and Finance, Ministry of Women’s Affairs, Afghanistan.Palwasha Kakar,born in Nangarhar, Afghanistan in 1966, serves as a Deputy Minister in the Ministry ofWomen’s Affairs for the Government of Afghanistan. Born to an educated family, Kakar graduated fromthe faculty of social sciences at Kabul University and became a teacher.Throughout much of the 1980s and 1990s, Kakar and her family were displaced because of the Sovietoccupation or fighting among the Mujahedeen.When public teaching became impossible, she joined a United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) programand eventually created the only home school for girls in the eastern zone during the Taliban reign.Because of her activities, her husband was briefly jailed and her family later forced into exile in Pakistan.Back in Afghanistan in 2001, Kakar served again as a Unicef trainer, this time creating the first council ofwomen in the City of Herat.She then served as program manager in the eastern office (covering the Provinces of Nangarhar, Kunar,Laghman, and Noristan) of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, where shedocumented, at great risk to her personal safety, human rights violations and the crimes of warlordsduring the civil war.As Deputy Minister, Kakar has been seeking ways to surmount the challenging patriarchal norms whichprevail in Afghanistan.Kakar was awarded a Woman PeaceMaker fellowship in 2006 by the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace &Justice of theUniversity of San Diego.