Ms. Nida Usman Ch
Nida Usman Chaudhary is an award winning, diversity and inclusion advocate and founder of women in law initiative Pakistan. She holds LL.B (Hons) and LL.M in Law and Development from the University of London. She has over 15 years of experience in research, training and capacity building and has provided legislative and policy input on several key women and child rights laws including guidelines under anti rape ordinance 2020, amendments to workplace harassment bill 2021 and on proposed amendments for maternity leave and benefits, child protection and child marriage restraint laws. Her areas of focus include amongst others, gender based violence, fair representation, and child rights. She was amongst the list of 100 women from global south featured in Femilist 100 by Gender Security Project in 2021 and has won the international Justitia Awards 2021 in category academia International in Vienna. Previously, she also won Sewegap Emerging Women Leader award in 2018. In 2023 she was awarded global women Top50 award in Sri Lanka for her work on women's rights activism and was awarded the ‘Certificate of Recognition’ by the Governor of Punjab, for her contributions to fair representation in justice sector and law and policy inputs for women and child rights legislation at the 75th independence day celebrations at the Governor House, Punjab. Nida has been teaching Company law at Pakistan College of Law for over 6 years. Her students have achieved excellent results in their University of London Examinations.