Humaira Rasuli is an Afghan human rights lawyer and women empowerment activist. Humairahas a Master degree in Law and Political Science, practiced as an attorney in Afghanistan, and registered with the Afghan Bar Association as a Human Rights Attorney. She is also a certified psychosocial counselor and has a diploma in Business Administration. She is currently engaged in a fellowship at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute (RWI) in Sweden. She with some other Afghan fellows also works in support of Richard Bennett (UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan)
Humaira has over 20 years of experience working in Afghanistan on issues related to gender, human rights, civil society development and rule of law. Her extensive experience includes senior management positions, development and leading two prominent NOGs in Afghanistan, training and mentoring lawyers and activists to increase women’s access to justice, uphold the rule of law in Afghanistan.
Humaira Rasuli started her social justice journey at the age of 16 when she was an Afghan refugee in Pakistan after the fall of the Taliban in 2001. For 20 years, she cofounded and let two local organizations programs in Afghanistan providing psychosocial counseling and legal support to survivors of violence against women across five provinces to serve, assist, and empower tens of thousands of women and girls affected by the war and crisis.
Humaira performed as a leading lawyer in investigating and trying some of the most high-profile sex-crime cases in Afghanistan involving warlords, politicians, drug lords and the criminal mafia. She has frequently travelled nationally to give trainings to women at grass-root level andinternationally. Humaira attended and contributed to workshops and conferences in regards to women’s rights agenda
Since the Taliban took over, she been at the frontlines from protesting, to mobilizing resources, to creating networks of support, educational opportunities to advance women’s rights and navigate the challenges of human rights progress and gender equality within Afghanistan.
Currently, she conducts lawyering skills trainings to law graduated students, provides on the job trainings to fresh lawyers and counsellors and participates in campaign to End Gender Apartheid crimes in Afghanistan and participate in meetings to encourage the UN member states to address systematic gender-based discrimination against women and girls in Afghanistan.