Scholar Highlights Women’s Key Role in Exposing Crimes of Aggressors
This is according to Zeinab Asgharian, university professor and expert in international relations who made the statements while addressing the international expert panel titled “Media: An Effective Tool for Unity and Resistance” held on Saturday.
“In this era of escalating humanitarian crises and repeated violations of international law, the responsibility of journalists, activists, and especially women engaged in media and global civil society, is more critical than ever,” Taghrib News Agency quoted her as saying.
“The ongoing humanitarian catastrophe in oppressed Palestine, and the recent aggression against the territory of the Islamic Republic of Iran, are clear examples of the collapse of a justice-based global order and the dominance of apartheid structures and military imperialism over international institutions,” she added.
Referring to the four core international crimes—genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression—Dr. Asgharian stressed that: “These four legal pillars have been systematically and structurally committed both in Palestine and the Islamic Republic of Iran by the Zionist regime, with the full support of the United States.”
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“According to Article 16 of the Draft Articles on Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts (ILC, 2001), any state that knowingly and intentionally assists another state in committing an internationally wrongful act shares responsibility for that act. The United States’ logistical, military, and diplomatic support for the Zionist regime in its war against the people of Palestine, and its direct attacks on Iranian territory, are clear examples of active participation in international crimes,” she added.
“The role of women—as guardians of human conscience—is particularly vital,” she said, adding, “Women journalists, documentarians, analysts, and human rights defenders not only bring a more humane and less power-driven perspective but also carry a historical responsibility to support the oppressed.”
She named accurate and impartial documentation of atrocities, amplification of victims’ voices, especially women and children, challenging colonial media narratives, building global networks of solidarity among women, and raising public awareness and awakening global conscience as key responsibilities of women in media and international activism during such critical times.
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“Women must transcend borders, ethnicities, and nationalities to become front-line actors in the media, legal, and ethical resistance against structural crimes. Their mission is not merely to reflect suffering, but to play an active role in the global pursuit of justice, the documentation of truth, and the exertion of pressure on responsible institutions for accountability.”
“As global powers attempt to bury the truth, it is women—through their cameras, pens, and voices—who keep it alive. Indifference to genocide, apartheid, war crimes, and aggression is itself a form of complicity; silence in the face of oppression is a form of collaboration,” she said.
Source: Taghrib News Agency
