Dr. Moheb Mudessir is a London-based legal scholar, international human rights advocate, and journalist with more than two decades of experience at the intersection of law, media, and civil society. He holds a PhD in International Human Rights Law from the University of Sussex, where his doctoral research examined the rights of minority and marginalised groups, with a particular focus on Turkic peoples in Afghanistan. In addition, he holds an LLM in Public International Law and a BA in Law and International Relations. Dr. Mudessir’s academic and advocacy work has consistently focused on the protection of human rights, with particular expertise in minority rights, indigenous peoples’ rights, gender justice, and press freedom. His research and publications engage with questions of state responsibility, impunity, and the role of international institutions in advancing accountability and justice. Prior to his academic career, Dr. Mudessir spent more than 20 years as a journalist and senior Presenter with the BBC World Service. In this capacity, he reported extensively on human rights, geopolitics, security, conflict, and across Afghanistan, Central Asia, Pakistan, Iran, and the broader Middle East, and contributed analytical writing to various national and international media outlets. Dr. Mudessir served as a prosecutor before the People’s Tribunal for Women of Afghanistan at the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal, an initiative led by Afghan civil society organizations to investigate and expose the Taliban’s system of gender persecution. Together with his fellow prosecutors, he prepared the formal legal indictment and presented during the Tribunal’s public hearings in Madrid in October 2025. Through this work, he contributes to advancing legal analysis of gender persecution and gender apartheid under international law, while amplifying the voices of Afghan women and documenting their struggle for justice and recognition.