Solidarity with Afghanistan: Diana Sayed x Adam Bandt x Janet Rice livestream
The humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan is an emergency and our actions as a country played a role in creating the crisis. Join Adam Bandt MP and Diana Sayed, CEO of the Australian Muslim Women’s Centre for Human Rights as they discuss the situation in Afghanistan and what you can do to support the Afghan people.
Australia has a moral responsibility to grant asylum to 20,000 people from Afghanistan, in addition to our existing humanitarian intake. We must act immediately. There is no time to delay in offering our protection, aid and assistance to those who have been forced to evacuate.
Diana Sayed is the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Muslim Women’s Centre for Human Rights. She joined the organisation as an international human rights lawyer with experience working in both Australia and the United States.
She is the former Campaigns Manager at Fair Agenda and Senior Crisis Response Campaigner at Amnesty International Australia. Diana has a Master in International Human Rights Law she is an expert on issues pertaining to gender equality, social justice, and human rights.
She has worked as a lawyer, advocate, and campaigner for over a decade, and has the lived experience of being a visible Muslim woman of colour in Australia, as a former refugee from Afghanistan.
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