Fereshta Abbasi is an accomplished human rights lawyer and advocate from Afghanistan. For the past ten years, she has documented human rights abuses in Afghanistan with different organizations, including Human Rights Watch and the All-Survivors Project. Currently, she is the Afghanistan researcher for Human Rights Watch, focusing on research and documentation of ongoing abuses in Afghanistan.

Natasha Arnpriester is an international human rights lawyer and Senior Strategic Litigation Officer at the Open Society Justice Initiative, who specializes in developing innovative litigation strategies to tackle complex and challenging human rights issues. Her litigation spans regional human rights tribunals, several domestic courts, and the UN treaty bodies.

Duru Yavan is a human rights lawyer from Turkey, currently working as an Associate Strategic Litigation Officer at the Open Society Justice Initiative, where she uses strategic litigation and advocacy to protect and advance human rights at domestic, regional, and international levels. Her expertise lies in gender justice, accountability for severe human rights violations and international crimes, and the application of decolonial, intersectional feminist approaches to strategic human rights litigation.

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