As authoritarian abuses are on the rise worldwide, help us push back
As authoritarian abuses are on the rise worldwide, help us push back
Naima leads Reprieve’s work to prevent and challenge unlawful detentions and other serious human rights abuses carried out in the name of “counterterrorism” or “national security”. She oversees Reprieve’s work on detention cases in North East Syria, citizenship stripping, and the organisation’s Life after Guantánamo project.
Before joining Reprieve, Naima worked as a Crisis Communications Consultant at UNFPA’s East and Southern Africa Regional Office, where she developed and implemented communication strategies for emergencies, conflicts, and other high-risk situations. She previously served as Deputy Director of APPEAL, where she led work challenging miscarriages of justice and advancing criminal justice reform. At APPEAL, she headed the Women’s Justice Initiative, representing women who had been wrongly convicted or unfairly sentenced, oversaw communications and campaigning, and established the organisation’s survivor advocacy and racial justice programmes.
Earlier in her career, Naima worked as an investigator with the Bronx Defenders in New York, representing low-income clients within the criminal justice system. She has also served on the boards of the feminist and abolitionist charities Women in Prison and Clean Break and advised a range of organisations and initiatives working on racial and criminal justice reform in the UK. Naima is a qualified solicitor in England and Wales, a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Reading School of Law and holds a BA from Yale University and a forthcoming LLM in Public International Law from the London School of Economics.
