Sima Samar, former Afghanistan vice-president and head of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, is in exile but dreams of returning to the country she has helped rebuild once before.
“The international community has lost interest, has stopped paying attention,” Samar says. “There are conflicts all around the world, some very bad conflicts, but Afghanistan is also important … there is a moral responsibility to defend human rights everywhere.
“What is security when a woman is not safe to walk in the street? What is security if a girl cannot go to school? What is security if families have food for lunch but no food for dinner. There’s no human security.”