Sara Hossain

Sara Hossain is a lawyer and practices in the High Court Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh. She was educated at Oxford University, called to the Bar from Middle Temple in 1989, and enrolled as an Advocate of the Dhaka Bar in 1990. Her main areas of practice are constitutional law, human rights law and family law.

Sara is an active member of Ain o Salish Kendra, a national human rights and legal aid organization based in Dhaka. She also undertakes pro bono work with Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust, the leading national private legal services organisation. From 1997-2002, she headed the South Asia Programme at the International Centre for the Legal Protection of Human Rights (INTERIGHTS).

Sara has written and lectured on human rights law, in particular on public interest law and women’s rights within marriage. Her publications include (co-edited with Shahdeen Malik and Bushra Musa, Rights in Search of Remedies: Public Interest Litigation in South Asia, UPL, Dhaka 1996), (co-edited with Lynn Welchman), ‘Honour’: Crimes, Paradigms and Rights of Women (Zed Publications, London, 2005,) and (Ed.) Handbook on Legal Remedies for Forced Marriage ( Universal Publishers, 2005).