Azadah Raz Mohammad

Ms. Azadah Raz Mohammad is one of the four prosecutors of the People’s Tribunal for Women of Afghanistan and currently serves as a Legal Advisor at the End Gender Apartheid Campaign. Her previous work has focused on the role of law and justice reform in Afghanistan, where she worked closely with the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, the Ministry of Justice, the Administrative Office of the President, and other national justice institutions. She has also served as an adjunct lecturer in law at the American University of Afghanistan.

Ms. Raz Mohammad holds an LLB from the University of Westminster, an LLM in International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights from the University of Essex, and a second LLM in International Criminal Law from Ohio State University, where she was a Fulbright Scholar. She is currently pursuing a PhD at Melbourne Law School.

In 2021, she co-founded the Ham Diley Campaign, a collective of human rights lawyers committed to pursuing accountability for international crimes committed in Afghanistan. As part of this work, she co-directs legal and policy research at the Afghanistan Support Clinic within Monash Law Clinics, where she also serves as a Teaching Associate.

Her academic and professional work focuses on international criminal law and international humanitarian law, with particular emphasis ongender justice, legal reform, and victim-centred approaches to accountability for international crimes. She also writes frequently on international criminal law and accountability through decolonial and gender-sensitive perspectives.