Fadiah Nadwa Fikri

Fadiah Nadwa is a practicing lawyer and the Campaign Director for Lawyers for Liberty in Malaysia. Lawyers for Liberty is a human rights organisation that seeks to challenge oppressive laws and acts perpetrated by public authorities, by pushing for accountability and law and policy reform. As Campaign Director, Fadiah’s role is primarily to coordinate and execute activities run by the organisation. This involves public campaigning, test case litigation and intervention, parliamentary lobbying, independent policy analysis, briefing and research and training and events. Fadiah work’s involves working directly with the victims of human rights violations and with the government and/or other public authorities involved. Currently Fadiah is working on cases of forced evictions carried out by the government, under the pretext of developing the occupied land. Fadiah aims to use knowledge and skills acquired in the training to push for law and policy reform in line with international human rights standards.