The Honourable Justice Susan Glazebrook

This article originally appeared in The Commonwealth Lawyer: Journal of the Commonwealth Lawyers’ Association, Vol. 34, No. 2; August 2024. It is reproduced with the permission of the Commonwealth Lawyers’ Association. The article and/or the image may not be shared or reproduced without permission.

The story of the rescue of the Afghan women judges begins on a date indelibly engraved on my memory and no doubt even more on the memories of my Afghan colleagues: the 15th of August 2021. This was when the Taliban reached Kabul and placed the 250 Afghan women judges in mortal danger…