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, writes for the Oxford Human Rights Hub, and worked in various MENA focused women’s rights organizations in the UK and abroad.

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).

Open to consultancy contracts.