WELLINGTON THE JUDGE’S TALE

usan Glazebrook, 65, is a member of New Zealand’s highest court. She’s also the president of the International Association of Women Judges. This May, the association held a conference in Auckland, most of it virtual, that drew Glazebrook’s attention to Afghanistan. Two female judges there had been killed in terrorist attacks in early 2020, and other women judges from Afghanistan who attended virtually talked about their fears of being killed. When they went to work, they said, they didn’t know whether they would come back home at night. The International Association of Women Judges passed a resolution in Auckland to continue supporting women judges in Afghanistan. Then, in mid-August, faster than anyone expected, the Taliban reached Kabul, posing a severe threat to the lives of the women judges. And so Justice Glazebrook and the IAWJ had to decide what their support for