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Webinar: Afghanistan's Women Judges, Three Years After the Taliban Takeover
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When the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in August 2021, one of their early actions was to ban women from the legal profession. Many female judges and other legal professionals were forced to flee the country; others remain, in hiding and in fear, struggling to survive financially, deprived of their important work and their livelihoods. Without women judges and other legal professionals, Afghan women face enormous barriers in trying to access justice, at a time when they face systematic and escalating Taliban violations of their rights. This panel—featuring three Afghan women judges and a Canadian judge who helped Afghan women who were forced to flee—will discuss this crisis and what more the international community should be doing to help.