Sahariyar Ahmed Afnan (بيداء أفنان) is a former Adviser to the

Iraq Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq ...

i Permanent Mission at the

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. She represented Iraq in the

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's Third Committee (Social, Cultural, and Humanitarian) and on the

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.Roland Burke, ''Decolonization and the Evolution of International Human Rights,'' (Univ of Pennsylvania Press, 2011), 118-119 In this role, she was "one of the delegates most directly responsible" for the inclusion of the

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' Article 3 (Part I) which guarantees "the equal right of men and women to the enjoyment of all civil and political rights" enshrined therein.International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
/ref> In the 1950s, she served as the

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for the

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, and maintained a friendly relationship with

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