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Nabila Idris | |
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 Nabila Idris in 2025 | |
| Occupations | Academic, human rights activist |
| Known for | Member of the Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances |
| Awards | Begum Rokeya Padak (2025) |
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| Thesis | The politics of social protection in Bangladesh: The making of the National Social Security Strategy (2021) |
Nabila Idris (Bengali: নাবিলা ইদ্রিস, Bengali pronunciation: [nabila idris]) is a Bangladeshi academic and human rights advocate, who serves as a member of the Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances in Bangladesh. She received the Begum Rokeya Padak in 2025 for her contributions to human rights.
Early life
[edit]Idris earned her PhD from the University of Cambridge.[1][2] Her 2021 thesis was titled "The politics of social protection in Bangladesh: The making of the National Social Security Strategy".[3] Before that, she completed a master’s degree in Social Policy with distinction from the University of York in 2014, and later a second master’s degree in International Journalism and Communication from the Communication University of China in Beijing in 2015.
Career
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Idris is the Commissioner of Bangladesh's National Human Rights Commission.[4] Earlier she was the member of the Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances in Bangladesh.[5][2]
She works as a part-time research fellow at the BRAC Institute of Governance and Development, BRAC University.[2] She is the founding president of "CommunityAction".[6]
She received the Begum Rokeya Padak in 2025 for her contributions to human rights.[7][8][9]
Views
[edit]Idris argues that years of enforced disappearances, torture, extrajudicial killings, and other forms of state repression under the government of Sheikh Hasina culminated in widespread public demands for accountability and democratic reform.[10]
Publications
[edit]Articles
[edit]- Idris, Nabila; Lambin, Roosa; Yeates, Nicola (2025-08-01). "Thinking afresh: Closing the global funding gap to realise universal social protection". Global Social Policy. 25 (2): 346–350. doi:10.1177/14680181241290162. ISSN 1468-0181.
References
[edit]- ↑ "Nabila Idris, University of Cambridge". UNESCO. Retrieved 13 December 2025.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - 1 2 3 "Bio-data of Dr. Nabila Idris". বাংলাদেশ জাতীয় তথ্য বাতায়ন. Retrieved 13 December 2025.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ↑ Idris, Nabila (2022-07-26). The politics of social protection in Bangladesh: The making of the National Social Security Strategy (PhD thesis). doi:10.17863/CAM.86932.
- ↑ "জাতীয় মানবাধিকার কমিশন বাংলাদেশ" [National Human Rights Commission of Bangladesh]. nhrc.org.bd (in Bengali). Archived from the original on 23 March 2026. Retrieved 22 March 2026.
- ↑ "রোকেয়া পদক পাওয়া কে এই তরুণী নাবিলা?". The Daily Campus. 9 December 2025. Retrieved 13 December 2025.
- ↑ "NABILA IDRIS". The Daily Star. 8 March 2015. Retrieved 13 December 2025.
- ↑ "৪ নারীর হাতে বেগম রোকেয়া পদক তুলে দিলেন প্রধান উপদেষ্টা". The Daily Ittefaq. 9 December 2025. Retrieved 13 December 2025.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ↑ "রোকেয়া পদক পাচ্ছেন ৪ নারী". Prothom Alo. 7 December 2025. Retrieved 13 December 2025.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ↑ "পদক হাতে গুমের গল্প শোনালেন নাবিলা ইদ্রিস". Shomoyer Alo. 9 December 2025. Retrieved 13 December 2025.
- ↑ "Dr Nabila Idris: 'If we die, we die' – how fear gave way to fearlessness in Bangladesh". The Deltagram. 18 July 2026. Retrieved 18 July 2026.