Kirby Anwar

Kirby Anwar is an international human rights lawyer who focuses on accountability for grave human rights violations and crimes under international law, and protection of marginalized communities. She has extensive experience engaging with international and regional human rights mechanisms and provides legal and advocacy support to feminist civil society organizations in complex and conflict-affected contexts who are seeking transformational change, including justice for crimes against humanity. Kirby’s scholarship focuses on women and LGBTQI+ human rights defenders’ protection needs, gender violence in situations of conflict and disaster, and gender justice under international criminal and human rights law. She has also provided technical expertise to Colombia’s Special Jurisdiction for Peace regarding crimes committed on the basis of gender and ethnicity, and co-authored reports on gender persecution in Afghanistan for advocates and judicial actors.