JK Rowling

In donating a huge sum of cash the Harry Potter author was able to change the lives of women facing direct threats from the Taliban.

It was clear these women were high on the list of those at risk of being killed, but only a handful got on to military planes." However, events in August 2021 saw forces leave the country in a hurry, leaving the same individuals open to assassination. Baroness Kennedy said: "JK Rowling just said, 'I want to help these women'. Sign up to our daily newsletter Female lawyers and their families were hidden away in basements before they were smuggled to airports. It meant a total of £4 million was needed. She also set up a children's charity Lumos that works to rescue children from orphanages and Beiras Place in Edinburgh allowing women in crisis the option of single-sex support. And Rowling, fabulously wealthy thanks to the success of her books and the resulting films about boy wizard Harry Potter, responded quickly to the desperate cries of female judges in Afghanistan. The Taliban has become a direct threat to the lives of women and girls in Speaking to the Daily Mail, Baroness Kennedy said she had become close to lawyers in Afghanistan after helping introduce female judges to the country's legal system when the Taliban were overthrown by America, Britain and their allies in 2001. Lord David Alton told the chamber how the writer and Lord Hintze "in a Schindler's List moment" came forward to help when veteran human rights lawyer Baroness Helena Kennedy needed money to rescue female lawyers - mainly judges - and their families. [JK Rowling ](https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/all-about/jk-rowling)donated hundreds of thousands of pounds to save more than a hundred female lawyers and their families facing death in Afghanistan.