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	SARID: Archives: Female Governor Sets Out Agenda
		Sorabi has already gone a long way toward accomplishing one of her primary goals – raising the status of women in society – simply by being appointed the first female governor in the country in March.
		Trained as a pharmacist, Sorabi, 48, was a lecturer at the Institute for Secondary Medical Education in Kabul until the Taleban took power in 1996.
		Still, Sorabi, who is married and has three children, acknowledged that her job might remain dangerous until security is restored to Afghanistan.
	www.sarid.net /archives/2005-may/050502-afghanistan.htm (544 words)

	Female Governor Sets Out Agenda \| The Agonist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Habiba Sorabi hopes to show that women are equally capable of governing and reviving the country's shattered economy.
		IWPR - As the new governor of Bamian province in central Afghanistan, Habiba Sorabi has a clear idea of what she hopes to accomplish.
		Sorabi has already gone a long way toward accomplishing one of her primary goals - raising the status of women in society - simply by being appointed the first female governor in the country in March.
	www.agonist.org:81 /story/2005/4/23/82649/0198 (369 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Habiba Sorabi was appointed as the new governor of Bamiyan, Afghanistan marking a first for a woman to hold that position throughout the nation.
		Habiba Sorabi is a woman, the first female provincial governor in Afghanistan's tortured history.
		With support from abroad internationally as well as from her husband Sorabi may be the face that is needed to bring about reform in a nation that was up until a few years ago known only for violence and war.
	www.legendgames.net /blognews/archive/WN0000085.html (383 words)

	UNO - eNotes
		Habiba Sorabi, governor of the province of Bamiyan, Afghanistan, will receive one of four 2005 Jason Awards from Children's Square U.S.A. tonight, Nov. 1, during a banquet at the Mid-America Center in Council Bluffs.
		Sorabi was appointed Bamiyan’s governor this past March by Hamid Karzai, president of the Republic of Afghanistan, on the basis of her experience and professional integrity.
		Prior to her appointment, Sorabi was director of Humanitarian Assistance for Women and Children of Afghanistan from 2000 to 2002 and was minister of Afghan Woman’s Affairs from July 2002 to January 2005.
	www.unomaha.edu /uac/enotes/archives/2005archives/2005november1p.html (2398 words)

	Feminist Wire Daily Newsbriefs: U.S. and Global News Coverage
		Habiba Sorabi, former Minister of Women’s Affairs, has been selected to head the central province of Bamiyan, Afghanistan.
		Sorabi sees her appointment as an opportunity to raise awareness about women’s rights that are enshrined in Afghanistan’s new constitution, reports Reuters.
		Sorabi told Agence France Presse that “the biggest challenge for women generally in Afghanistan is safety from warlords and commanders.
	www.msmagazine.com /news/uswirestory.asp?id=8939 (274 words)

	Washington File
		Sorabi said that according to one article of the draft document, the Afghan government would be required to actively promote women's education and eliminate illiteracy.
		Sorabi described the draft measures as "a good gesture for democracy and a very good result for the government of Afghanistan."
		On the question of education, Minister Sorabi pointed out that after years of being denied the right to go to school under the Taliban regime, girls now account for 1 million out of a total of 4 million Afghan students.
	globalsecurity.org /military/library/news/2003/11/mil-031107-usia01.htm (676 words)

	Afghanet Network News Room (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Sorabi, 48, will be the first woman to leave relatively progressive Kabul to run the remote province to the west.
		Sorabi will live in a modest home of three rooms, plus a room to wash herself, an outhouse and a guard house.
		Now, Sorabi is in Kabul, getting ready to move and waiting for her house to be finished.
	www.afghanet.com /newsroom/more.php?id=M10_0_1_0_M (4623 words)

	Afghanistan Online: Biography (Vida Samadzai)
		During this time, the Taliban were spreading propaganda that giving women the right to work and the right to an education will lead to the destruction of Afghan and Islamic values in Afghanistan.
		Sorabi further added that "...women should not demonstrate their worth using their 'beauty or bodies' but by their skills and knowledge".
		Sorabi became the Afghanistan's first female provincial governor in March 2005.
	www.afghan-web.com /bios/today/vida_samadzai.html (260 words)

	Amnesty FM - live via internet!
		KABUL - Habiba Sorabi knows she has her work cut out as the first woman ever to govern an Afghan province.
		KABUL (Reuters) - Habiba Sorabi knows she has her work cut out as the first woman ever to govern an Afghan p...
		KABUL (Reuters) - Habiba Sorabi knows she has her work cut out as the first woman ever to govern an Af...
	archive.wn.com /2005/03/06/1400/amnestyfm (612 words)

	Danny Carlton -- alias "Jack Lewis": Maybe if they were lesbians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The appointment of Habiba Sorabi as the new governor of Bamiyan was announced in a brief statement on state-run Kabul Television.
		Ms Sorabi, who was picked from an all-female short list, served as women's affairs minister in the previous interim administration of President Hamid Karzai, which approved a constitution enshrining of equal rights for women last year.
		Conditions for women in Afghanistan have gradually improved since the overthrow in late 2001 of the Taliban regime, which barred women from education and from venturing out of doors unveiled.
	jacklewis.net /weblog/archives/2005/03/maybe_if_they_w.php (195 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The organisers are grateful to all the participants for their contributions to the workshop, and particularly to Ms Habiba Sorabi, Afghan Minister of Women’s Affairs, for her participation and her inspiring keynote speech.
		The workshop brought together Afghanistan women leaders, including Madame Habiba Sarabi, the Minister of Women’s Affairs, staff of United Nations’ entities, representatives of OECD DAC member countries and civil society, and gender and post-conflict experts with field experience in reconstruction.
		Habiba Sarabi, Minister of Women’s Affairs, Afghanistan Working Group Sessions11 July 200309:30 — 13:00 Group 1: Humanitarian assistance and recovery: including crisis management, emergency aid, assistance to refugees and IDPs; demobilization, disarmament and reintegration programmes.
	www.womenwarpeace.org /afghanistan/docs/oecd.doc (11759 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Opinions
		resident Hamid Karzai’s selection of Ms Habiba Sorabi as the new Governor of Bamiyan province of Afghanistan is a landmark development in a society where women had virtually no rights till a few years ago.
		Ms Sorabi, who was a minister in the Karzai-led interim government, has been a relentless fighter for women’s rights.
		Ms Sorabi has far more supporters than her opponents in the province where she has to provide proof of her ability to govern.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2005/20050310/edit.htm (4961 words)

	Islam Online- News Section (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Vida Samadzai, 25, who has lived in the United States since 1996, will take part in all sections of the contest, including the swimsuit section in Manila, the Philippines, for the first time in more than 30 years, according to media reports.
		Afghan Minister of Women's Affairs Habiba Sorabi criticized Samadzai for taking part in the beauty contest.
		Samadzai, or Miss Afghanistan as she will be known in the competition, has told the BBC Persian service that the Afghan embassy in Washington asked her to represent Afghanistan in the competition.
	www.islam-online.net /English/News/2003-10/27/article10.shtml (535 words)

	SIVACRACY.NET: Echidne on Women in Afghanistan
		Keeping this in mind, it is interesting to read that: Afghan President Hamid Karzai will appoint a female provincial governor for the first time in Afghanistan's history.
		Karzai will be choosing the governor of the central Bamiyan province from a short list of all-female candidates that includes the former Minister of Women's Affairs, Habiba Sorabi, reports the Associated Press.
		Many see the appointment of a female governor as a positive step towards promoting women's rights in Afghanistan.
	www.nyu.edu /classes/siva/archives/000777.html (406 words)

	History News Network
		Afghanistan Wednesday named its first female provincial governor, Habiba Sorabi as the new governor of Bamiyan.
		Sorabi fled to live in neighboring Pakistan during the Taliban's rule, only returning after U.S.-led forces overthew the fundamentalists after the attacks on the United States on Sept. 11, 2001.
		She has said in interviews that she aims to restore historical sites in Bamiyan and promote tourism there.
	hnn.us /blogs/entries/10524.html (147 words)

	Education is Their Foundation
		Still, women's drive for equality has barely begun in Afghanistan, said Habiba Sorabi, the nation's first minister of women's affairs.
		Those injustices persist, especially in rural areas, Sorabi said.
		Another is reducing the odds that make a woman 150 times more likely to die having a baby in Afghanistan than in the United States.
	www.gregmortenson.com /Articles/FeaturedArticles/07-19-04MSNBC.html (996 words)

	Feminist Wire Daily Newsbriefs: Print This Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Afghan President Hamid Karzai officially appointed Habiba Sorabi as minister for women’s affairs today, replacing Dr. Sima Samar who will head the country’s human rights commission.
		Sorabi is a pharmacist and women’s rights activist, who returned to Afghanistan after she fled to Pakistan following the Taliban takeover.
		The Feminist Majority believes that while these appointments represent a step forward for Afghan women, there is still much to be done.
	www.msmagazine.com /news/printnews.asp?id=6657 (125 words)

	Critical Beauty - Journal 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		An article published yesterday in Khilafah.com quoted Afghan Minister of Women's Affairs Habiba Sorabi who had earlier criticized Samadzai for participating in the swimsuit event.
		It is safe to say that most of the positive comments are coming from pageant lovers and more liberal-minded Afghan people, yet it is not surprising that the negative comments are coming from some Afghans.
		In article in Sky News (10/26), Habiba Surabi, the Afgan women's affairs minister, exclaims: "She is not representing Afghan women.
	www.criticalbeauty.com /Journal_Oct_2003.html (7506 words)

	ZoomInfo Web Summary: Abdullah Abduallah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		UK Women's Link with Afghan Women : News Release : 08 J...
		Afghan Minister of Foreign Affairs Abdullah Abduallah and Afghan Minister of Women's Affairs Habiba Sorabi also participated in the press conference.
		Abdullah Abduallah, Minister of Foreign Affairs, says continued support from the international community is critical.
	www.zoominfo.com /directory/Abduallah_Abdullah_328591086.htm (162 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Afghanistan: Female governor sets out agenda
		Source: Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR)
		Sorabi has already gone a long way toward accomplishing one of her primary goals -- raising the status of women in society -- simply by being appointed the first female governor in the country in March.
		In addition, she has the support of influential Hazaras such as Ghulam Hasan Naseri, a member of the political committee of Hezb-e-Wahdat -- the dominant party in this region - who called her appointment a step forward for Afghan democracy.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/RMOI-6BN3GM?OpenDocument (587 words)

	A Year as AGU's Congressional Science Fellow
		From left to right: Karen Wayland, Habiba Sorabi, Minister of Women's Affairs for Afghanistan, Senator Reid, and Zeiba Shorish-Shamley, founder of Women's Alliance for Peace and Human Rights in Afghanistan, acting as translator.
		When I applied for AGU’s Congressional Science Fellowship, I promised that I would be completed with my degree requirements before the fellowship began.
		STRONGz, Volume 84, Number 24, 17 June 2003
	www.agu.org /sci_soc/policy/confellows/eos_wayland1.html (1091 words)

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