Fatima Yasmin Bokhari
Senior Technical Advisor
Fatima Bokhari is a legal practitioner, trainer and consultant with 15 years of experience specializing in rule of law and human rights, with a focus on increasing access to justice for marginalized groups and legally empowering them. She has been involved in leadership and advisory capacities with international and national organizations as well as Federal and Provincial governments in Pakistan. She has conducted training of diverse stakeholders, including parliamentarians, police, and prosecutors on citizen-centric and trauma-informed governance and international and regional human rights frameworks. Fatima has previously worked with the Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI) in New York and Budapest on issues of national security and criminal justice reform in Europe and Central Asia, focusing on strategic litigation and advocacy geared towards compliance with international and regional human rights frameworks. Fatima holds a Master of Law (LL.M.) from Harvard Law School and an LL.M. in ‘Criminology and Criminal Justice’ from the University of London. She is also an Executive Committee Member of the Asia Alliance Against Torture, a regional network working to prevent and pursue accountability for serious human rights violations in Asia.