“Rights and empowerment are interconnected: unless a substantial number of women in a community come to believe that they have rights and demand to exercise them, right remains an abstraction.”
Mahnaz Afkhami“Women’s status in society has become the standard by which humanity’s progress toward civility and peace can be measured.”-Architects of Peace: Visions of Hope in Words and Images”
Mahnaz Afkhami“The new information technology, indifferent to human suffering, does not accommodate humane needs unless we harness it and make it do so.”
Mahnaz Afkhami, Leading To Choices: A Leadership Training Handbook For Women“Rights and empowerment are interconnected: unless a substantial number of women in a community come to believe that they have rights and demand to exercise them, right remains an abstraction.”
Mahnaz Afkhami, Faith and Freedom: Women's Human Rights in the Muslim World