Azadah Raz Mohammad
Azadah Raz Mohammad is an Afghan lawyer, women's rights activist and the Co-Founder of the Ham Diley Campaign. Her organization, established after the Taliban takeover in 2021, has worked to provide support to Afghans at risk of persecution, conduct research, and pursue accountability for grave international crimes in Afghanistan. She is the co-author of the “Handbook on Universal Jurisdiction: Holding the Taliban Accountable for International Crimes.” Ms. Raz Mohammad is also a legal advisor for the Strategic Litigation Project at the Atlantic Council and has previously worked in Afghanistan on humanitarian and human rights projects in close collaboration with the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission and the Afghan Ministry of Justice, amongst others.
The Taliban have erased Afghan women so thoroughly that even hearing their voices or seeing their faces in public is now a crime. They are suffocating in their homes, banned from even looking out the window. We, the women of Afghanistan, along with international experts, call this systematic and institutionalized oppression of women gender apartheid.
At the Security Council
Azadah Raz Mohammad, Co-Founder of the Ham Diley Campaign, was invited to provide a civil society perspective and recommendations when the Security Council met to discuss the situation in Afghanistan in March 2025.