#LetAfghanGirlsLearn
Meet the expert panel
Tamana Ayazi
Born and raised in Balkh, in the northern region of Afghanistan, Tamana Ayazi is a passionate advocate of freedom of thought and human rights who uses storytelling as a tool to advocate for equality and positive change. She became a National Geographic Explorer in 2018, and in 2022 began assisting Amnesty International in its research focused on women and children in Afghanistan.
Ayazi’s film credits include the 2019 Academy Award-winning short documentary Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl). Her first feature-length documentary, In Her Hands, co-directed by Marcel Mettelsiefen, premiered at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival in September 2022, won the Audience Award at the 2022 Camden International Film Festival and the Cinema for Peace Dove for Women's Empowerment Award in 2023. In Her Hands is available on Netflix.
Ramita Navai
Ramita Navai is an Emmy and Robert F. Kennedy award-winning journalist, documentary maker and author who has reported from over forty countries. Her recent documentaries include investigating rape and cover-up by politicians in India and AFGHANISTAN: NO COUNTRY FOR WOMEN, an investigation into the Taliban’s abuse of women. Her first book City of Lies: Love, Sex, Death and the Search for Truth in Tehran won the Debut Political Book of the Year and the Royal Society of Literature’s Jerwood Prize for non-fiction. She is the creator and host of THE LINE OF FIRE, a top 10 Apple podcast about facing death.
Dominique Van Heerden
Dominique Van Heerden is a multi-award winning senior foreign news producer at Sky News, who has produced major global stories in the field across Latin America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa.
Dominique specialises in breaking news and original storytelling. Her most recent stories have focused on the war in Ukraine, as well as the consequences of the withdrawal of foreign troops from Afghanistan in 2021 - a chaotic event she witnessed first-hand at Kabul airport alongside her reporting team.
She also produced Sky News's ground-breaking coverage from Bergamo, Italy at the height of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, earning Emmy and Royal Television Society awards for the team.
Dominique began her career at CNN, working in the field with CNN's Chief International Correspondent @ChristianeAmanpour, and now works with Sky's Chief Correspondent Stuart Ramsay, winner of the 2023 RTS Network Television Journalist of the Year.
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Thursday, 23rd March, 2023
Everyman, Borough Yards, London
The Taliban are stripping girls and women of their human rights including denying them of their right to an education.
This is only the tip of the iceberg. The Taliban's actions and their restrictions on the freedoms of women and girls is a fundamental human rights issue. We must talk about it to bring about change. How do we do this? Where do we start?
On 23rd March, AnotherWay Now and HiddenLight Productions hosted an evening of conversation and film with the director of the Netflix film, 'In Her Hands', Tamana Ayazi, together with an informed and expert panel, including Ramita Navai, Emmy and Robert F. Kennedy award winning journalist.
This event was exactly one year after the Taliban abruptly announced that schooling for girls beyond grade 6 would remain banned. We didn’t want this day to go unmarked.
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