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Kimberley Motley has been a litigator for over 20 years, with a focus on international law with a focus on human rights, victim rights, and the rights of children. Motley has also worked with CURE in Afghanistan for over a decade in providing pro bono legal representation. Motley is the first and only foreign lawyer to litigate in Afghanistan’s Courts and opened a law firm in the country in 2009, representing a vast array of clients with a particular focus on representing journalists, human rights defenders, and women.

Her success has included but is not limited to, securing the first Presidential Pardon for a woman charged with adultery, successfully working on international child abduction cases which resulted in the return of British and Australian children ages ranging from 2 years to 8 years old, working in Bolivia on a case trying to stop the legalization of child rapes under the age of 6 through the representation of a forensic doctor, and she has successfully represented Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim in Malaysia.

Currently, Motley has started the Khadija Project, which is a cadre of initiatives in Afghanistan and beyond in supporting vulnerable women and children by helping them with shelter, legal assistance, and support. The Khadija Project is run through her 501(c)3 the Justness Project and has helped hundreds of women and children since August 2021 in Afghanistan and beyond. Motley is also the Chair of the Wisconsin State Bar’s Civil Rights and Liberties Law Section. She is an admitted lawyer in the International Criminal Courts, the U.S. Supreme Court, and the state of Wisconsin. Her work has been internationally reported and she has trained thousands of lawyers around the world on how to litigate in their respective jurisdictions. Additionally, her work was profiled in an award-winning documentary entitled MOTLEY’s LAW. She has written a book entitled LAWLESS, and her TED TALK on: How I Defend the Rule of Law has garnered over 1.2 million views.