Nisha Varia

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ABOUT NISHA VARIA

I am a highly-skilled and experienced human rights strategist, trainer, investigator, advocate, and writer.#Ethics #Gender #Climate #Labor #Migrants support changemaking organizations with development of programmatic/funding/advocacy strategies; research, writing, and editing; and monitoring, evaluation, and learning.I offer bespoke trainings and mentorship on advocacy strategy, human rights research methods, and trauma-informed approaches to research, advocacy, and organizational experience as an independent consultant and at Human Rights Watch has included:* analyzing social, political, funding, and human rights trends, gaps, threats, and opportunities;* conducting and supervising numerous research investigations across the globe, including hundreds of interviews with survivors of abuses, activists, senior government officials, and donors;* translating findings and analysis into engaging materials geared towards target audiences, including dozens of op-eds, research reports, policy papers, news releases, videos, and social media campaigns;* designing and delivering in-person and remote training programs, workshops, and authoring comprehensive training manuals on human rights interviewing;* creating advocacy pressure and impact at national, regional, and global levels: including international treaties on domestic workers rights, freedom from violence and harassment at work, and forced labor; national laws/policies on migration, labor, and gender-based violence; reparations for communities displaced by coal mining; and services for survivors of sexual violence in conflict;* designing and implementing monitoring, evaluation, and learning processes; and* traveling and working in Asia, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and North America.