Shaharzad Akbar
@ShaharzadAkbar
Mom. Executive Director @Rawadari_org. Visiting Scholar @WolfsonCollege. Former Chairperson @AfghanistanIHRC. RT ≠ Endorsement. Tweets are personal.
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The first Australian sentenced to prison in relation to war crimes in Afghanistan is not a soldier convicted of a war crime, nor an officer commanding one, but one who (wittingly or not) helped expose them. David McBride
abc.net.au/news/2024-05-1…
If you are following Afghanistan, in this article, natasha arnpriester • ⚖️, Duru Yavan, and I have discussed how the International Court of Justice could be an avenue for women of Afghanistan to seek justice.
cjlpa.org/post/an-avenue…
Human rights lawyers Fereshta Abbasi, natasha arnpriester • ⚖️, and Duru Yavan argue for an untried but promising avenue to justice for Afghan women: a case at the ICJ based on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.
cjlpa.org/post/an-avenue…
“Why are you here?”
I’ve been asking students why they are risking arrest, expulsion, harassment and physical violence by protesting for Palestine and participating in Oxford Action for Palestine encampment.
Every response is different. I’ll continue posting my series here and on IG
🚨This is beyond appalling
As Gaza is starving, & the ground incursion into Rafah will only suffocate humanitarian provision further, our Foreign Sec David Cameron is meeting ppl in Parl about defunding UNRWA
This while many incl 🇩🇪 have lifted the suspension on UNRWA funding
🔴 Solidarity with the Oxford Action for Palestine Encampment
This morning, members of the University community began the Oxford Action for Palestine (Oxford Action for Palestine) Solidarity Encampment on the lawn outside the Pitt Rivers Museum, in solidarity with the Palestinian people. 1/6