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Anarkali Kaur Honaryar
Known For: Radio Free Europe’s “Person of the Year”
Dates: Common Era: 1984 (CE) - Present
Faith: Sikhism
Country: Afghanistan
About
Anarkali Kaur Honaryar is a staunch human rights advocate who in 2009, at the age of twenty-five, was voted “Person of the Year” by Radio Free Europe’s Afghanistan chapter. When the Taliban was overthrown in 2001, she joined the Grand Council, Loya Jirga, to elect the interim government to replace the Taliban, then as a member of Constitution Committee, helped draft the country’s new constitution. In 2006, she began work with the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission.
She has spent eight years fighting for the civil rights of her dwindling Sikh community, and promoting the empowerment of women through democracy and civil rights initiatives. Honoryar is also a trained dentist.
