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DESCRIPTION:91ºÚÁÏÍø's Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism (CHRLP) an
 d Women Living under Muslim Laws (WLUML) invite you to the fourth event in
  our joint webinar series this year\, with panelists Ms. Belquis Ahmadi\, 
 Justice Najla Ayoubi\, Ms. Zarizana Abdul Aziz. Ms. Naureen Shameem is our
  respondent\, and Professor Vrinda Narain will moderate.\n\nAll are welcom
 e. Questions may be submitted in advance to chrlp.law [at] mcgill.ca.\n\nZ
 oom: https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/82082039841\n\nPanel\n\nBelquis Ahmadi is a 
 Senior Programme Officer at the United States Institute of Peace in Washin
 gton DC. She has over 20 years of experience working in Afghanistan on iss
 ues related to gender\, human rights\, civil society development\, rule of
  law\, governance and democracy. Ahmadi’s extensive experience includes se
 nior management positions under large USAID programs in Afghanistan\, eval
 uation of USAID gender and democracy and governance programming\, and anal
 ysis and design of gender and human rights programming\, and training and 
 mentoring Afghan civil society and government candidates. She has also pub
 lished extensively on democracy\, governance and women’s rights in Afghani
 stan. Ahmadi earned her LLM in International Human Rights Law from Georget
 own University Law Center and her LLB from Kabul University.\n\nThe Honora
 ble Justice Najla Ayoubi is Chief Operating Officer at Every Woman Treaty\
 , which is based in Seattle. Every Woman Treaty is a global coalition of m
 ore than 1\,700 women’s rights advocates\, lawyers\, scholars\, and organi
 zations in 128 countries working on a campaign for a global treaty to end 
 violence against women and girls. Justice Ayoubi played a prominent role i
 n the Constitution-making process of Afghanistan. She served as a Legal Ad
 visor for the State Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs of Afghanistan\, Com
 missioner at the Independent Election Commission of Afghanistan and Commis
 sioner of Joint Electoral Management Body. She was the Senior State Attorn
 ey of Afghanistan\, State Attorney of the Parwan province\, and Judge at t
 he Parwan Provincial Court. She has worked with the Asia Foundation Afghan
 istan in various capacities. She served as a Board Member of Open Society 
 Afghanistan as well as the Country Director of Open Society Afghanistan. S
 he is a former Board member of Afghan Women’s Network\, Afghanistan Resear
 ch & Evaluation Unit\, Afghan Education Production Organization\, Co-Chair
  of Board in Afghanistan Institute for Civil Society\, and Member of the B
 oard of Trustees at Afghan Professional Network.\n\nZarizana Abdul Aziz is
  Director of the Due Diligence Project (DDP)\, which is dedicated to reima
 gining effective implementation of women’s human rights at the internation
 al\, national\, community and personal levels. DDP has a targeted mandate 
 to undertake in-depth analysis to sharpen and refine State accountability 
 standards and work with key stakeholders (governments\, judiciary\, indust
 ry actors) on implementing human rights and constitutional standards and n
 orms. Zarizana specialises in legal and policy reform focusing on intersec
 tions between international human rights\, gender\, culture\, and national
  legal regimes. From 2017-2019\, Zarizana engaged in judicial training and
  capacity-building in Afghanistan – training 100 judges\, 80 prosecutors a
 nd 25 judicial trainers. Prior to that\, she developed technical briefs to
  support the Elimination of Violence against Women Law on complex Islamic/
 shari’a concepts/issues from a gender justice\, Islamic/shari’a\, CEDAW an
 d socio-legal perspectives. Zarizana is also adjunct professor at George W
 ashington University\, Washington DC\, USA.\n\n \n
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LOCATION:Zoom: https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/82082039841
SUMMARY:Breathing Life into the Constitution of Afghanistan
URL:/law/channels/event/breathing-life-constitution-af
 ghanistan-330310
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