Plenary Session: Bondage to Freedom, and Back Again - Afghan Women and Girls
Tracks
Track 1: Room LG19
Track 2: Room LG18
Track 3: Room LG17
| Wednesday, July 30, 2025 |
| 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM |
| LG19 - The Arthur Goodhart Lecture Theatre |
Overview
Moderator: The Honourable Diana Bryant AO KC, Chair of the World Congress
Roger J. Coventry CMG LLM, Barrister at Law , Justice Development Consultant and Former High Court Judge, UK
Karen Bartlett, Author
Judge Catriona Jarvis, Former Judge of the UK Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) , UK
Fahima Sirat Qazi, Former Judge at the Afghan Anti-Corruption Justice Center and academic visitor in the Oxford Law Faculty
Speaker
The Honourable Diana Bryant
Chair
World Congress On Family Law And Children's Rights
Introduction: Bondage to Freedom, and Back Again - Afghan Women and Girls
Biography
Former Chief Justice of the Family Court of Australia, Chair of the World Congress of Family Law & Children’s Rights
Mr. Roger J. Coventry
Barrister at Law , Justice Development Consultant and Former High Court Judge
Bondage to Freedom, and Back Again - Afghan Women and Girls
Biography
Roger Coventry has lived and worked on Justice Development in Ghana, Pakistan, Afghanistan and most recently in Lebanon. He has sat as a Judge of the High Court in two Commonwealth jurisdictions.
Before then he was in charge of the prosecution of cases of child abuse and serious organised crime in England and practised at the Bar in London.
Roger lived and worked in Afghanistan for two years up to August 2021.
Ms Karen Bartlett
Author
Bondage to Freedom, and Back Again - Afghan Women and Girls
Biography
Karen Bartlett is the author of six non-fiction books, including The Escape from Kabul, Health of Nations and After Auschwitz
Judge Catriona Jarvis
Director
Former Judge of the UK Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber)
Bondage to Freedom, and Back Again - Afghan Women and Girls
Biography
Catriona Jarvis is a Judge of the UK Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) (retired) and Director of the First Rights Project of Methoria advocating for Child Friendly Justice.
Ms Fahima Sirat
Former Judge at the Afghan Anti-Corruption Justice Center
Bondage to Freedom, and Back Again - Afghan Women and Girls
Biography
