Our Team
Meet the Afghan women and allies leading our fight for justice, guided by lived experience, expertise, and an unwavering commitment to dignity and freedom.
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Our visionary leaders who guide WRF's strategic direction and governance.
Board Member
Morten Kjaerum
Morten Kjaerum is an Adjunct professor at the University of Aalborg, Denmark and an affiliated scholar at The Raoul Wallenberg Institute (RWI), Sweden. 2015 -2024 Director the RWI, 2008-15: director the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights; 1991-2008: Director, the Danish Institute for Human Rights; Member of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination 2002-08. 2018-2020 Chair the Board of Trustees for the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Technical Cooperation in the Field of Human Rights (VFTC) and of the UPR Trust Fund for Financial and Technical Assistance. From 2015-23 he was chair of the European Council for Refugees and Exiles (ECRE). He has written extensively on human rights issues and lectured at universities across continents.
Board Member
Alex Neve
Alex Neve is a visiting and adjunct professor in international human rights law at the University of Ottawa and Dalhousie University, and a Senior Fellow with the University of Ottawa’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. He presently serves as a Member of the UN Human Rights Council’s Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Venezuela. He was Secretary General of Amnesty International Canada’s English Branch from 2000 – 2020. He is a lawyer, with a Master’s Degree in International Human Rights Law from the University of Essex. Alex was the 2025 CBC Massey Lecturer, addressing the theme of Universal: Renewing Human Rights in a Fractured World. Alex Neve is an Officer of the Order of Canada.
Board Member
Saba Ghori
Saba Ghori currently serves as the Director for the Center on Global Rights for Women at the Battered Women’s Justice Project, an international legal resource center on gender-based violence, advancing systemic and community-level changes to ensure safety, justice, and accountability for survivors of violence against women. Saba is also an independent consultant and advisor with numerous women’s rights organizations including Safepath Prosperity, Vital Voices, Too Young To Wed, and BLOOM Charity on strategic planning, program assessment, fundraising, and institutional partnerships. For more than two decades, Saba has held senior roles at the U.S. Department of State, including as Senior Gender Advisor across multiple bureaus such as the Secretary’s Office of Global Women’s Issues, the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor and at the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, where she managed and developed multi-million-dollar portfolios on gender equality, justice sector reform, political empowerment, and women’s entrepreneurship. As Vice President at Vital Voices Global Partnership, Saba oversaw global programs on gender-based violence, women’s leadership, and crisis response. Following the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, she played a central role in coordinating emergency support, evacuation pathways, and relocation assistance for Afghan women leaders and human rights defenders, working with governments, NGOs, and private partners to secure visas, safe passage, short-term protection, and longer-term resettlement and support. Across her career, Saba has partnered closely with grassroots organizations, multilateral institutions, and donors to design survivor-centered, systems-level solutions and strengthen women-led movements worldwide. Saba has served on the Board of numerous anti-domestic violence organizations working with immigrant communities, including the Asian Pacific Islander Domestic Violence Resource Project, Saheli, and Peaceful Families Project.