Working for human rights with Farida Deif
Nov 23, 2023 — 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
The Human Rights Research and Education Centre (HRREC) is pleased to invite you to this networking event:
Working for human rights
This series of events was created to have leading human rights practitioners come and share their professional experience with our audience. It is an opportunity for students, alumni and any other person interested in human rights to hear about their career path and professional background!
We are pleased that Farida Deif has accepted our invitation. She is the Canada Director at Human Rights Watch. Based in Toronto, she monitors human rights abuses in Canada and advocates for a rights-respecting Canadian foreign policy.
Farida Deif
Canada Director, Human Rights Watch
Prior to joining Human Rights Watch, Farida Deif worked at the United Nations with UNICEF, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, and UN Women where she recently served as the Deputy Manager of the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women. She is a gender-based violence expert with over 13 years of experience in both documenting violence against women and girls as a researcher and in developing and supporting targeted programs to address these abuses as a development practitioner.
From 2003-2008, she was the Middle East and North Africa Researcher in the Women’s Rights Division of Human Rights Watch, where she researched and wrote on a range of issues from the arbitrary detention of women and girls to gender-related killings. She participated in Human Rights Watch’s first fact-finding missions to Libya and Saudi Arabia and has published extensively on human rights abuses across the region. She holds a graduate degree from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and l’Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris and obtained an undergraduate degree from Carleton University in Ottawa. She speaks Arabic, English, and French.