AIHRC Commissioners and Chief Executive Director
	Dr. Sima Samar, Chairperson Commissioner Dr. Sima Samar is a well known womans and human rights advocate and activist within national and international forums. Since 1994, Dr. Samar has received various international awards on womens rights, human rights, democracy, and women for peace. Dr. Samar served as the first Deputy Chair and Minister of Womens Affairs in the Interim Administration of Afghanistan. Before chairing the Commission, she was elected as the Vice Chair of the Emergency Loya Jirga. She was appointed as the Chair of the AIHRC by Mr. Karzai, Chairman of the Afghan Interim Administration.
	Ahmad Fahim Hakim Commissioner Fahim Hakim is a qualified social and development worker with over 12 years of experience working as an activist and Mobilizer for peace building and human rights activities. He worked as director of an Afghan network called Co-operation for Peace and Unity before joining the Commission. As an active member of the Afghan civil society he attended the Bonn Conference. He has an MA on Post-war Recovery, PRDU, the University of York, UK. Currently he is deputy chair of the Commission.
	Ahmad Nader Nadery Commissioner Nader Nadery is a qualified lawyer and political analyst. He was actively involved in civil society initiatives in Afghanistan and represented the Afghan Civil Society in The Bonn Conference (UN talks on Afghanistan). Mr. Nadery is a founding member to Afghan Civil Society Forum and a board member of directors of the Foundation for Civil Society and Culture. Before joining the Commission, he worked respectively as programme co-ordinator with the International Human Rights Law Group and spokesman of the Emergency Loya Jirga.
	Mohammad Farid Hamidi Commissioner Farid Hamidi is a well-known lawyer with extensive experience on criminology and investigation. He had attended various national and international conferences and events relevant to human rights promotion and protection. Before joining the Commission, Mr. Hamidi was member of the Emergency Loya Jirga and responsible for developing rules and regulation for election. He has worked closely with the Judicial Reform Commission in the training of lawyers and judges on international human rights law and standards.
	Hangama Anwari Commissioner Hangama Anwari is a qualified Afghan lawyer with extensive working experience of community based initiatives and a well-known advocate and activist for human rights and particularly in promotion of womens rights. She worked in senior positions with the UN- Habitat as well as a. member of the United Nation Human Right consultative group and founding member for culture and civil society. She has been involved in various research activities in the field of human rights and womens rights. Before joining the Commission she was working with UN-Habitat.
	Ahmad Zia langari Commissioner Zia Langari has been, as an activist, involved in human rights activities since 1991. He worked in senior positions with national and international NGOs working for awareness raising and human rights programmes. He attended several national and regional forums. A well-known human rights activist and advocate, before joining the Commission he worked in senior positions with CCA, an Afghan NGO mandated for human rights protection and promotio.n
	Dr. Soraya Rahim Sobhrang Doctor Soraya Rahim Sobhrang was born in Hirat. After her secondary education, she completed her higher education in the faculty of medicines, Kabul University. She worked with the Aliabad and Malalai Zezhanton hospital and then migrated to Germany. Dr. Sobhrang completed training courses in the fields of management, womens rights development, gender and psychology in Hamburg, Germany and in 1381 of solar calendar she returned to her homeland and started with the Ministry of womens affairs as technical and political deputy minister. In 1384, she worked as an advisor for the womens rights protection and development unit of Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, where later on, in Dalw, 1385 she was selected as a Commissioner. Besides having membership in national and international societies, Dr. Sobhrang has participated in international conferences in more than eleven European and Asian countries. Dr. Sobhrang, who, as a Commissioner is now in charge of womens rights protection and development, is making effort to give emphasis to the following issues: the nature and form of womens human rights violation should be monitored, serious attention should be paid to the elimination of all forms of violence against women, women should achieve the right to get access to justice and judicial organs, institutions and networks should be established to advocate womens rights,
	Mr. Abdul Karim Azizi Commissioner Mr. Abdul Karim Azizi is a well known educator with extensive experiences in field of education from curricula development and writing mathematics textbooks for primary schools to writing training manual for educators and Primary schools. Mr. Azizi possess a BSc Degree from faculty of science of Kabul University and MA Degree in education from University of Georgia, USA. Commissioner Mr. Azizi has diverse experiences of working with government offices, UNICEF-Kabul, and international organizations in Afghanistan. Before joining the AIHRC, Mr. Azizi was co-manager for a project for Strengthening  of Teachers Education Program (STEP) funded by Japan International Cooperation Association in Kabul.
	Mr. Ghulam Mohamad Ghareb Mr. Moulawee Ghulam Mohamad Ghareb was born in Maroaf district of Kandahar Province 1948. He did get his primary Islamic education in Kandahar city; in 1973 he went to Karachi city of Pakistan and got his degree in Feqa and Feta. In time of Mouqawamat he was deputy for justice minister. In transitional government he was appointed director in Haj and Owqaf ministry. In 2004 he was leader of Kandahar clergy association. In Dec 2006 he was appointed commissioner of Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission.