Fatema D. Ahmadi

Fatema D. Ahmadi is a human rights researcher and advocate with over 15 years of experience promoting women’s and children’s rights, focusing on policy and advocacy with various international organizations, including UNHCR, USIP, and the World Bank, in different countries. Currently. Ahmadi is a research consultant at Rawadari, where she leads an accountability initiative related to the potential case against Afghanistan before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for violations of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) by the Taliban. In 2025, she was a Research Fellow at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute, where she studied the political economy of child labor in Afghanistan among female-headed households through a feminist political economy lens.

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 and holds a Master of Public Affairs in Global Management and Development from American University in Washington, D.C.