Malalai Joya, considered to be the “bravest woman in Afghanistan” will speak at the Harvard Kennedy School Carr Center for Human Rights on October 30th, 2:30-3:30. She is “a former member of the Afghan parliament who has repeatedly stood up to the warlords, for women’s rights and democracy. A former teacher who set up secret schools for girls, an orphanage and free clinic in her impoverished home province of Farah during the Taliban era, she ran for parliament in 2005 to protect her schools and won, becoming the youngest person elected to Afghanistan’s new Parliament, at the age of 27. In 2007, she was suspended from Parliament for her persistent criticism of warlords and drug barons and their overwhelming presence in the Parliament. She has survived four assassination attempts to date.” Click here for event details.