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.
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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) |
Early life
editIdris 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]
Publications
editArticles
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.