Judge Fawzia Amini, the former head of Afghanistan’s Violence Against Women Court, fled Afghanistan in 2021 after the Taliban took power and emptied the prisons of many of the violent criminals that Judge Amini had put behind bars. One year after Kabul fell to the Taliban, Judge Amini continues to focus on advocating for the nearly 100 women judges who remain in danger. Upon accepting the 2021 Lantos Human Rights Prize earlier this year, she said, “At this memorable moment of my life, I want to remember the women of my country and their pain. They have lost all their fundamental and basic rights. I hope that the world will not leave us alone.”