I am an international human rights lawyer.

My journey into this work started when I first travelled alone to war-affected Afghanistan at the age of 17 to work alongside Afghan lawyers on human rights cases. Afghanistan gifted me with a life experience that made me who I am today.

From Afghanistan, my work has expanded to Kenya, South Sudan, Colombia, and beyond. I focus on serious human rights violations and war crimes including rape, torture, displacement of communities, and persecution by the State, insurgents, and corporations. I have represented survivors, trained legal teams to document and litigate human rights cases, drafted laws and policies, made submissions to international courts, advocated before UN bodies, and led rescue, protection, and evacuation efforts for persecuted persons.

Though my work is tragic in many ways, one of its best parts is mentoring individual leaders in civil society: helping them flourish in their skills and talent, and watching them grow into formidable leaders advancing access to justice in their own communities.

As co-founder and director of two organisations, I also set strategic goals and priorities, lead responses to crises, and oversee the publication of analytical reports and advocacy materials to generate international pressure on critical human rights issues —all while meeting fundraising targets to sustain the work.

Currently, I am fundraising to build a legal team to document human rights violations and international crimes in three conflict and post-conflict zones for submission to international courts and human rights bodies.

I am also the founder of Strategic Advocacy for Human Rights (SAHR- global) and co-founder of Women for Justice Organisation (WJO - Afghanistan) providing legal aid services and survivor-centered advocacy in conflict and fragile contexts.