Professional Experience:
Legal Consultant, Terai Human Rights Defenders Association, Nepal,
August 2013 – Current
• Writing and editing a report on extra judicial executions in the Terai region of Nepal.
Freelance Human Rights Researcher (French and English), CORI, London, UK
April 2013
• Country of Origin Information research on Democratic Republic of Congo
Legal Consultant/ Coordinator TRIAL, Kathmandu Nepal
March 2010 - December 2010
• Collection of supporting documentation for legal submissions to UN Human Rights Committee
• Submission of individual petitions to UN Human Rights Committee
• Taking witness statements (working with translator)
• Developing and maintaining relations with local actors
• Providing expert legal support to local partners
• Providing support to local partners with their grant/funding requests
• Donor reporting
• Programme management and co-ordination and management of two partner organisations
Legal Programme Officer, Legal Research Project Advocacy Forum, Nepal
January 2010 - May 2011
• Writing and editing reports
• Writing legal briefs and submissions to UN Human Rights Committee and Committee against Torture
• Statistical analysis of torture in detention
• Campaigning for access to justice and prevention of torture
Seedex, PA to the Director, London October 2009
Translator, REDRESS, London
August 2009 - September 2009
Legal Research Assistant, Research & Advocacy Unit, Home for Human Rights, Sri Lanka
September 2008 - March 2009
Legal Research Assistant, Legal Research Project, Advocacy Forum, Nepal
February 2008 - July 2008
• Taking preliminary witness statements, gathering documentation for a torture case being prosecuted in UK (Universal Jurisdiction)
• Legal research, editing, writing reports and submissions to UN Committees
Marketing and Administrative Assistant, NAM (For HIV Information), London
January 2007- February 2008
Research Assistant Academic Sector, Department of Education and Communication, International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva
June 2004 - August 2005