IBA Human Rights Institute webinar on Afghan Women at Risk

Tuesday 21 December 2021 at 2000 GMT

An important discussion:

Baroness Helena Kennedy QC, Director International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI), invites you to an online event to discuss:

• What: Afghan Women at Risk: The Threats Faced, The Help Needed, The Future Sought
• When: Tuesday 21 December, 20h00-21h00 London time. 

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The withdrawal of United States' and allied troops from Afghanistan changed the lives of Afghans forever. Among the most negatively affected are Afghan women who have a special place in Taliban-run Afghanistan – a place hidden from the public, a place confined to home, a place where a woman exists only as an extension of a man. The 20 years of progress on women's rights have been reversed within minutes.

Today's session will address the risks faced by women –including women judges, lawyers, journalists, activists– in Afghanistan, their needs and the future. 

Panellists include:

• Baroness Kennedy QC, IBAHRI
• Fawzia Koofi, Afghan politician and women's rights activist
• Fawzia Amini, Senior judge in Afghanistan's Supreme Court
• Yalda Hakim, Anchor and Correspondent. Host of BBC World News' Impact with Yalda Hakim
• Alex Crawford OBE, Journalist, Special Correspondent for Sky News

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The link to join the event will be sent shortly before the start of the discussion.

Notes:

1. The International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI), established in 1995 under Founding Honorary President Nelson Mandela, is an autonomous and financially independent entity, working to promote, protect and enforce human rights under a just rule of law, and to preserve the independence of the judiciary and the legal profession worldwide.
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3. The International Bar Association (IBA), the global voice of the legal profession, is the foremost organisation for international legal practitioners, bar associations and law societies. Established in 1947, shortly after the creation of the United Nations, it was born out of the conviction that an organisation made up of the world's bar associations could contribute to global stability and peace through the administration of justice.

For further information, please contact: IBAHRI@int-bar.org