Arezo Amini

Senior Expert Researcher of Iran

Arezo Amini is a Senior Expert Researcher of Iran and a former Human Rights Officer with UNAMA in Afghanistan. Her work covered discrimination and violence against women, child protection, peace and reconciliation, conflict-related detainees, and protection of civilians in armed conflict.

She has undertaken training in San Remo, London and Geneva on international humanitarian law, peace support operations, and advanced mediation and peacemaking in complex conflicts. Her United Nations experience includes work on the implementation of human rights law, laws addressing violence against women and sharia law.

Arezo has also worked with government institutions in women’s affairs, national security, provincial courts and prosecution offices. She has extensive experience monitoring detention centres and prisons, including interviewing security-related detainees, prisoners and perpetrators of gender-based violence.

Her experience also includes research involving women affected by PTSD while working as a midwife researcher. After moving to England, she worked as an asylum and refugee adviser with RMC, the Refugee and Migrant Centre in Birmingham, and currently assists clients with interpretation and translation.

She holds a degree in midwifery from Ghazanfar Institute of Health Science in Kabul and a Law and Criminology Certificate from Birmingham Metropolitan College.