Nayla Rida

Nayla was awarded the title of UN Women UK Participant to the 66th, 67th and 68th Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), advocated with a rape relief centre, wrote for the Oxford Human Rights Hub, worked at the Iranian and Kurdish Women Rights Organization, and more recently at Global Dialogue on Afghan women’s rights. She holds a MA in Education, Gender and International Development from UCL’s Institute of Education '22, a MSc in Modern Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Oxford '24, and a Certificate of International Human Rights Law offered jointly by the University of Oxford and George Washington University's Faculty of Law '25. Nayla also holds a certification from the Sexual Violence Research Initiative in quantifying violence against children, another one from the University of Iceland in Gender Violence in Post-Conflict States, and an additional one on Gender Perspectives on Disarmament delivered by the UN Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA), amongst others. In addition to international women's rights law, she's particularly interested in the normative framework to defend the rights of children born of war (CBOW).

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The Codification of Gender Apartheid under International Law and the Evolutive Significance of ‘Apartheid’

The Codification of Gender Apartheid under International Law and the Evolutive Significance of ‘Apartheid’

Discussions and advocacy movements to codify the concept of ‘gender apartheid’ under international law have gained traction since the resurgence of the Talibans to power in Afghanistan in 2021 and the birth of the Woman, Life, Freedom ...
AI Regulation, Migration and the New International World Order

AI Regulation, Migration and the New International World Order

In a world where one’s digital blueprint has already become a determining factor for the achievement of various socio-economic rights such as employment, education, and other personal milestones, the prospect of automating this ...
The 2025 Mudawana Reform Protests in Morocco

The 2025 Mudawana Reform Protests in Morocco

Under the guise of benevolent masculinity, many a man will present themselves as an old-fashioned gentleman eager to do things the traditional way and provide for the woman they are courting—not just emotionally and spiritually, but ...
Post-Conflict Restorative Justice in the Aftermath of ISIL

Post-Conflict Restorative Justice in the Aftermath of ISIL

After last year’s announcement of the sudden and premature closure of the United Nations Investigative Team to Promote Accountability for Crimes Committed by Da’esh/ISIL (UNITAD), which is scheduled to end its operations in September ...
The Future of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Iraq

The Future of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Iraq

The Republic of Iraq ratified the UN Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in 1986 and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) in 1971. However, like many ...
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