Diana Sayed

Australian Muslim Women’s Centre for Human Rights

Diana is the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Muslim Women’s Centre for Human Rights (AMWCHR). She joined the organisation as an international human rights lawyer with experience working in both Australia and the United States.

She is the former Campaigns Manager at Fair Agenda and Senior Crisis Response Campaigner at Amnesty International Australia. Diana has appeared as a regular panelist on The Drum, ABC The World, SBS, Al Jazeera, MSNBC and ABC Q&A. With a Master in International Human Rights Law she is an expert on issues pertaining to gender equality, social justice, and human rights. She has worked as a lawyer, advocate, and campaigner for over a decade, and has the lived experience of being a visible Muslim woman of colour in Australia, as a former refugee from Afghanistan.