| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Thursday, February 10, 2022 | 12:00PM - 1:00PM | Online Event, Online Event |
Afghan Voices Speakers Series
Afghanistan is complex, diverse, and changing. In ‘Afghan Voices’ we invite Afghans from a variety of perspectives to reflect on the past twenty years—from the US invasion in 2001 to the Taliban takeover in 2021. In doing so, they link their own personal stories to questions about Afghanistan’s past and future.
Professor Ghizaal Haress is a constitutional lawyer, with 19 years of experience working in different legal aspects in Afghanistan.
She was the first Ombudsperson for Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (2019 –2021). The Office of the Ombudsperson was mandated to inspect the allegations of corruption for high governmental officials. Prof. Haress was the first woman to ever lead an anti-corruption institution; and the first woman to ever lead a law enforcement institution in Afghanistan.
Prior to that, she was a Commissioner at the Afghanistan Independent Commission for Overseeing the Implementation of the Constitution, where she, as the only female Commissioner, led the institutions work on constitutional interpretation and developing legal opinions.
Prof. Haress is also an Assistant Professor of Law at the American University of Afghanistan, where she has been teaching since 2012. She was the Chair of the Law Department at AUAF from 2016-2019.
She has earned her LLM from School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and LLB from Kabul University.
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