Sara Hossain

Sara Hossain is a Senior Advocate at the Supreme Court of Bangladesh, and a partner at the law firm of Dr. Kamal Hossain and Associates. She serves pro bono as the Honorary Executive Director of the Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST). She is also currently a Professor of Practice at SOAS, University of London, a member of the United Nations University- International Institute of Global Health’s High-Level Advisory Committee, and an Overseas Bencher of the Middle Temple. She currently chairs the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran, and was earlier a member of a Commission of Inquiry on the 2018 Gaza Protests, appointed by the President of the UN Human Rights Council.

Sara has been involved in landmark cases before the Supreme Court of Bangladesh on equality and discrimination, in particular women’s rights, freedom of expression, and freedom from torture, among others. She writes and speaks on issues of women’s rights, equality and non-discrimination, freedom of expression, access to justice and public interest litigation. Her publications include (co-edited with Lynn Welchman) ‘Honour’: Crimes, Paradigms and Violence against Women (2005, Zed Press).

Sara was educated at Wadham College, Oxford, and called to the Bar from Middle Temple. She is a member of the Dhaka Bar Association.