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 think tank and MENA focused women’s rights organizations in the UK, Canada and her native Morocco.

Her writing for the University of Oxford’s Faculty of Law (see here) has been cited by the European Union Agency for Asylum (see here) and Naif Arab University for Security Sciences (see here).

She holds a MA in Education, Gender and International Development from UCL’s Institute of Education ’22 where she researched the educational challenges of children born out of wedlock in Morocco, a MSc in Modern Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Oxford ’24 where she researched the aftermath of the Yazidi genocide, and a Certificate of International Human Rights Law offered jointly by the University of Oxford and George Washington University’s Faculty of Law ’25 (AI regulation track).

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.