Gulnaz Shaikh

Gulnaz is the Chief Executive Director at NICE Pakistan, a locally based human rights advocacy initiative. The organisation provides support to vulnerable groups in civil society, which enables them to live with peace, security and dignity through advocacy, awareness and promoting sustainable development. Gulnaz’s interests in human rights advocacy began while she was in college, where she noticed that people around her were being taken advantage of due to their inadequate awareness about their basic rights. Since then, she has completed a Masters in Media and Communication, which allowed her to improve her personal advocacy skills and build on her experience as a local elected representative. Using this knowledge, she has been involved in various human rights movements and community service projects. In future, she hopes to be able to grow her local movement to end trafficking into a national movement; working towards her vision of a world without slavery, gender and other discrimination. Through this program, Gulnaz hopes to learn about international law and UN Treaties concerning human rights, as well as different human rights movements around the world. This knowledge will then allow her to understand human rights issues and come up with solutions suitable to Pakistan’s local context and circumstances.