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Projects Manager

Deepika is a qualified lawyer in Nepal with experience working as a Legal Assistant for a respected law firm and undertaking human rights research for Amnesty International Nepal. She is also a founding member of a local Senior Citizen Service Community, a non-profit organization that protects and promotes senior citizens’ rights. Deepika speaks English, Hindi and Nepali.

Kenya Researcher

Dome is responsible for designing, implementing and supervising research projects in East and Horn of Africa and labour migration corridors to the Gulf countries. His experience includes data mining on engendering inclusivity for UNWOMEN and conducting violent extremism research for USAID. He has also been involved in a range of projects for clients including Core Group Polio Project, Kenya’s Ministry of Education, Save The Children and CARE International.

Bangladesh Researcher

EiffeI has extensive experience as a social researcher and journalist including previously as the Diplomatic Correspondent for Bangladesh News and Dhaka Tribune, and reporting for Chinese state-run news agency Xinhua, China Central Television and Al Jazeera Arabic. He covered the Rohingya refugee crisis for US-based magazine Politico and has worked as a Special Correspondent for The Los Angeles Times.

Legal Adviser

Kamran Arif is a human rights advocate with thirty years’ experience working in litigation before the High Courts of Pakistan, conducting fact-finding missions, and conducting training and capacity building workshops for civil society and others. He was the Senior Legal Adviser at Open Society Foundation Pakistan for a decade between 2010 and 2020, advising the organisation on a range of grant-making areas and legal compliance matters.

Investigator, India and the Arab Gulf

Before joining Equidem, Mini spent 25 years working with civil society organisations and trade unions in India and the wider region. As a long-term advocate for workers’ and migrants’ rights in industries such as fishing, construction and farming, Mini works closely with people from marginalised communities, including low-wage workers, women, children, disabled and transgender people.

Founder and Executive Director

Mustafa Qadri is the Founder and Executive Director of Equidem Research and Consulting, managing all our projects and partner relationships. He is a human rights research and advocacy expert with nearly 20 years of interdisciplinary experience in government and public international law, journalism and the non-governmental sector.

India Director

Namrata is responsible for the successful leadership, management and oversight of Equidem’s work in India.

Special Projects Researcher

Nikhil has broad experience spanning human rights research and advocacy, campaigning and mobilisation, investigative reporting and fundraising. Nikhil is the author of the landmark Amnesty International report Exploited dreams: Dispatches from Indian migrant workers in Saudi Arabia. He has a background in labour rights and a proven track record of building and leading large teams that deliver on strategic outcomes.

South Asia Director, Nepal Director

Rameshwar has worked on human rights for over two decades, becoming Amnesty International’s longest serving director in Nepal before leaving to join Equidem in 2017. He now manages our work in Nepal, including four field investigators, and coordinates our work across South Asia.

Projects Assistant

Sujan is an experienced office manager and is responsible for a range of administrative and project management functions for Equidem and Equidem Nepal.