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15 Aug 2022, 8:16 am
Three items to share on this, the one-year anniversary of the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan: Register and attend what promises to be a riveting discussion on Global Strategies for Countering Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan on Friday 19 August 2022, with courageous Afghan women human rights defenders like Shaharzad Akbar and Zarqa Yaftali and international partners like the University of Michigan’s Professor Karima Bennoune and Human Rights Watch’s Heather Barr. [read post]
15 Sep 2021, 4:00 am
Shaharzad Akbar, the Chair of Afghanistan’s Independent Human Rights Commission; Ms Michelle Bachelet, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights; the Coordination Committee for dozens of independent UN human rights experts; and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the International Commission of Jurists, Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada (LRWC), the International Bar Association, and The Law Society of England and Wales. [read post]
3 Sep 2022, 7:51 am
Ashraf Haidari (@MAShrafHaidari) A Crisis of Justice for Afghan Victims of War by Shaharzad Akbar (@ShaharzadAkbar) Taiwan Relations Strategic Ambiguity Isn’t Working to Deter China on Taiwan – It Will Invade Anyway. [read post]
12 Aug 2022, 6:51 am
Gender Apartheid in Practice Shaharzad Akbar, former chairperson of the recently abolished Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission said when I interviewed her, “If a government is unwilling to recognize half of the population, we should be unwilling to recognize them. [read post]
5 Oct 2023, 8:19 am
Earlier today, dozens of prominent jurists, scholars, and civil society representatives – including Afghan women’s rights defender Shaharzad Akbar, Nobel Laureates Shirin Ebadi, Malala Yousafzai, and Nadia Murad, South African jurists Navi Pillay, Justice Richard Goldstone, and Rashida Manjoo, former Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Fatou Bensouda, former U.S. [read post]
