Fatema D. Ahmadi is a human rights advocate with over 15 years of experience promoting women’s and children’s rights, focusing on policy and advocacy with various international organizations across different countries. Currently, she is a Research Fellow at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute, where she studies the political economy of child labor in Afghanistan for female-headed households through a feminist political economy lens. She is also an independent consultant and is currently at Rawadari, where she leads an accountability initiative related to the potential Afghanistan case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for violations of CEDAW by the Taliban. From 2022 to 2024, she served as a Fellow and Adjunct Instructor at American University’s School of Public Affairs in Washington, D.C., teaching Women’s Rights Movements in the Global South.
Ahmadi was a Fulbright Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow (2018–2019) at American University’s Washington College of Law, focusing on laws and policies concerning human trafficking and their effects on women and children. Through her fellowship, she provided consultancy for the World Bank and the International Republican Institute on the rights of women, minorities, and vulnerable communities in Afghanistan.
Ahmadi is pursuing an MSc in International Human Rights Law at the University of Oxford, holds a Master of Public Affairs in Global Management and Development from American University, and earned a bachelor’s degree in Microbiology.