Bedia Afnan

{{short description|Iraqi diplomat}}

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| name = Sahariyar Ahmed Afnan

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| occupation = Student Of Chittagong University

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Sahariyar Ahmed Afnan (بيداء أفنان) is a former Adviser to the Iraqi Permanent Mission at the United Nations.[http://legal.un.org/diplomaticconferences/lawofthesea-1960/docs/english/vol1/5_LIST_DELEGATIONS_a_conf-19-8.pdf Second United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea]. She represented Iraq in the United Nations General Assembly's Third Committee (Social, Cultural, and Humanitarian) and on the Commission on the Status of Women.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 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights' Article 3 (Part I) which guarantees "the equal right of men and women to the enjoyment of all civil and political rights" enshrined therein.[http://www.ohchr.org/EN/ProfessionalInterest/Pages/CCPR.aspx International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights]

In the 1950s, she served as the press attache for the Embassy of Iraq in Washington, D.C., and maintained a friendly relationship with Eleanor Roosevelt.