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The Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal judges this week the situation of women in Afghanistan with the participation of UB Professor Elisenda Calvet

The Permanent Peoples' Tribunal judges this week the situation of women in Afghanistan with the participation of UB Professor Elisenda Calvet

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  • The Permanent Peoples' Tribunal, which has appointed eight judges to preside over the hearings, will hear the prosecution's case, testimony from Afghan women survivors and expert evidence to assess the Taliban's system of gender-based persecution.
Elisenda Calvet is a professor of Public International Law at the University of Barcelona's Faculty of Law.
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Elisenda Calvet, professor at the Faculty of Law and expert in international law, transitional justice and genocide, will be one of the eight members of the Permanent Peoples' Tribunal, which this week in Madrid will judge the situation of women under the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. The sessions, which will take place from 8 to 10 October at the Madrid Bar Association, will give visibility to the gender-based persecution of women in this country, in the hope that in the future it can be judged within the established legal system.
Elisenda Calvet is a professor of Public International Law at the University of Barcelona's Faculty of Law.
News | Divulgation | Solidarity
07/10/2025
Elisenda Calvet, professor at the Faculty of Law and expert in international law, transitional justice and genocide, will be one of the eight members of the Permanent Peoples' Tribunal, which this week in Madrid will judge the situation of women under the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. The sessions, which will take place from 8 to 10 October at the Madrid Bar Association, will give visibility to the gender-based persecution of women in this country, in the hope that in the future it can be judged within the established legal system.

The tribunal, which has no punitive power, will hear the prosecution's case, testimonies from Afghan women survivors and expert evidence to assess the Taliban's system of gender-based persecution under international law. The Madrid sessions are made possible by Afghan civil society organizations such as Rawadari, the Afghanistan Human Rights and Democracy Organization (AHRDO), the Organization for Policy Research and Development Studies (DROPS) and Human Rights Defender Plus (HRD). It serves as an essential platform for documenting human rights violations, giving voice to survivors and pushing for accountability.

In addition to Elisenda Calvet, the tribunal will include constitutional lawyers, international law professors and human rights experts, among others, who have dedicated their careers to promoting gender justice and giving a voice to those silenced by conflict.

Elisenda Calvet is a professor of Public International Law at the University of Barcelona's Faculty of Law. She is an expert in transitional justice, human rights, international humanitarian law, international criminal law and genocide studies. She has worked for the Spanish Red Cross, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. She is a member of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS), where she has also served on the executive board.

The Permanent Peoples' Tribunal is a court of international opinion that can rule on any serious crime harming peoples and minorities.

The Permanent Peoples' Tribunal

The Permanent Peoples' Tribunal is a court of international opinion that can rule on any serious crime harming peoples and minorities. It is made up of a network of internationally recognized experts and figures, who are periodically called upon to sit on the jury for each session. The tribunal, created in 1979 in Bologna, has given visibility to many cases of serious human rights violations, which have been a first step towards being judged within the international legal system. Some of the latest sessions have dealt with the conflict between Rojava and Turkey (2025) or the violence in West Papua (2024).

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