Anger and the Struggle for Social Change - Fadiah Nadwa Fikri
Channel: SMLC_UNM
Date: 26/10/2014

Fadiah Nadwa Fikri is a lawyer and is currently practicing law at Messrs Kesavan. She is a member of the Steering Committee of Bersih 2.0, a coalition of 89 civil society organizations for free and fair elections. She was a secretariat member of SUARAM, one of the leading human rights advocacy NGOs in Malaysia that deals with detention without trial, police brutality, abuse of police powers, the protection of refugees and migrant workers, indigenous peoples’ rights and corruption. She was also a committee member of Abolish ISA Movement (GMI), a coalition of 80 organizations which was formed on 30 April 2001 to advocate for the abolition of the Internal Security Act 1960 which allowed detention without trial and other repressive laws that denied the right to a fair trial. She was the Secretary of the Bar Council Kuala Lumpur Legal Aid Centre for the year 2009-2010. The Bar Council Kuala Lumpur Legal Aid Centre was set up in 1982 to fill the critical need to provide legal aid as legal aid in Malaysia is not state funded. She was also a member of the Bar Council Human Rights Committee for the year 2007-2009.

Held 20/10/2014