World Forum for Democracy 2023: speakers
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Zarifa GHAFARI
Former Mayor of Maidan Shahr, North South Prize Laureate 2021
Afghanistan/Germany
Presenter:
Forum Talk 3 – Women, Democracy and Peace
Zharifa Ghafari is an Afghan entrepreneur and politician, who served as Mayor of Maydan Shahr from 2019 to 2021. She fled Afghanistan in August 2021, shortly after the Taliban came to power; She receives death threats on the grounds that she is a female mayor. She is a refugee in Germany.
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