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Susan Marx

Susan Marx is a South African-American international human rights practitioner who lived and worked in Afghanistan from 2007-2010. She specialises in gender-based violence, anti-human trafficking, rule of law and other human rights programmes. She holds an MSt in International Human Rights Law from Oxford University, an MA from UCLA, and a BA from the University of Southern California. She has worked in Iraq, Afghanistan, Timor-Leste, Solomon Islands, and throughout sub-Saharan Africa. She currently works in Eswatini and lives in Pretoria, South Africa, from where she continues to assist in evacuation attempts for her colleagues and staff from Kabul.