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Asada "Azadah" Mariam Raz Mohammad is a Ph.D. candidate at the Melbourne Law School. Her doctoral research investigates the case for the inclusion of an “international crime of terrorism” in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Azadah holds an LL.M. in International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights from the University of Essex, and a second LL.M. in International Criminal Law as a Fulbright Scholar from Ohio State University. In September 2021, Azadah co-founded the Ham Diley (همدلى) Campaign assisting vulnerable Afghans at the risk of persecution and advocating accountability for victims of atrocity crimes in Afghanistan. She has worked on humanitarian and human rights-related projects in close collaboration with Afghanistan’s justice institutions. Besides, she has worked with the Administrative Office of the Afghan President and as an adjunct lecturer of law at the American University of Afghanistan.