Fereshta Abbasi
American University of AfghanistanFereshta Abbasi is an accomplished human rights lawyer and advocate. She is currently a researcher at Human Rights Watch, focusing on research and documentation of ongoing abuses in Afghanistan .Fereshta has delivered guest lectures at the School of Advanced Studies Sant'Anna, Pisa in Italy. Fereshta has extensively attended academic panels contributing to the ongoing discussion of human rights violations in Afghanistan at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute at the University of Lund, Monash University, University of Oklahoma, the University Club, and London School of Economics. She was previously a legal advisor for the International Development Law Organization (IDLO), where she trained and developed employees’ legal skills in decision-making within the Afghan justice sector. She holds an LLM in International Law and Strategic Studies from the University of Aberdeen and was a Chevening Scholar in 2019–2020.