Tahmina Sobat

Tahmina Sobat is a women human rights lawyer from Afghanistan. She obtained a law degree from the Herat University of Afghanistan in 2015. Through the competitive FPJRA scholarship, she made to earn her LLM degree in International Human Rights Law from the University of Notre Dame in 2020. Afterward, she started her second master’s degree in Gender and Women Studies through the prestigious Fulbright Scholarship at Minnesota State University, Mankato. She has also been through a fruitful career path. She started her professional experience working as an M&E Assistant for Women Empowerment Program at Zardozi Organization. In 2017, she started her next professional position as Ombuds-person at Independent Human Rights Commission in Afghanistan. She has done extensive research in legal analysis of women’s rights, including women’s harassment in the workplace in Afghanistan; women’s role in peace-building, case-study of Afghanistan which is currently under consideration for publication at Ms. Magazine; and a book review: “A Woman's Place: US Counterterrorism Since 9/11,” which is also under consideration at Feminist Pedagogy Journal for publication. Over and above that, during her Ph.D. degree, she is aiming to conduct research titled “The Role of Grassroots Feminism in Demilitarization and Peace-Building in Afghanistan.” This research is highly interdisciplinary in which she will have an international human rights law and transnational feminist approach. Her research will offer a new perspective of the US counterterrorism strategies and Afghan women’s advocacies for inclusion in the peace process and peace negotiations.