Peace Prize of the City of Ieper (Ypres) Belgium, 2008 Asia Democracy and Human Rights Award, December 2008 Honorary Officer of the Order of Canada, 2009 Geuzenpenning, 2011 Right Livelihood Award, 2012 Mother Teresa Awards for Social Justice in November 2012. Honorary Doctorate from Salem State University in May 2013 2013 Allard Prize for International Integrity, Finalist award of CDN$25,000 Notes External links Ms. magazine "A Voice for the Voiceless" Winter 2007 conversation with Sima Samar and Ms. executive editor Katherine Spillar. The New England Journal of Medicine "Despite the Odds -- Providing Health Care to Afghan Women" Vol. 351, No. 11 (2004). Other Afghan Human Rights Activists''' Qadria Yazdanparast Afghan Human Rights Activist and Law Professor Yazdanparast on Wiki 1957 births Living people Afghan physicians Afghan women physicians Officers of the Order of Canada United Nations special rapporteurs Afghan democracy activists Afghan human rights activists Afghan expatriates in Pakistan People from Quetta Vice presidents of Afghanistan Kabul University alumni Women's ministers of Afghanistan Women government ministers of Afghanistan 21st-century Afghan women politicians 21st-century Afghan politicians Women vice presidents Hazara politicians Politicians of Ghazni Province Afghan officials of the United Nations Afghan women's rights activists