Nealan Afsari

Nealan Afsari is an attorney living in San Francisco. She is a co-founder of Spark, a San Francisco-based nonprofit invested in changing patterns of inequality that impact women globally.

What do Somalia, Sudan, Iran and the U.S. have in common?

None have signed the U.N.’ Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.

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