Sitara nominee Nayab Ali to join UN CESCR talks in Geneva
The activist will serve as transgender rights consultant on a four-member official team led by Minister of State for Law Barrister Aqeel Malik at the CESCR review on 3 and 4 November.
Nayab Ali will join Pakistan's official UN delegation in Geneva as a transgender rights consultant.
Minister of State for Law Barrister Aqeel Malik will lead the four-member team for the CESCR review on 3 and 4 November.
Pakistan is including a transgender woman in a UN human rights treaty-review team for the second time; Ayesha Mughal did so in February 2020.
Nayab Ali survived a 2016 acid attack in Toba Tek Singh and later helped shape the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act 2018.
She now heads Islamabad Police's Transgender Protection Unit and was selected as a 2025–2026 Harvard Kennedy School human rights fellow.