Advocate Fawzia Karim Firoze A dvocate Fawzia Karim Firoze is a practising lawyer, Supreme Court of Bangladesh; Human Rights Activist and Women's Rights Advisor. She is the President of the Bangladesh National Women Lawyers Association (BNWLA). Besides BNWLA she is the president of the Workers Rights Coalition; SEWA (an organization of women workers in the informal sector); and Legal Secretary, Bangladesh Labour Foundation. Advocate Karim started her career as a lawyer in 1982 practicing in Civil, Criminal, Labour and Corporate Law. She obtained her Honours and Masters in Law from Dhaka University. In addition, she was awarded an Advocacy Fellowship from the Advocacy Institute, Washington D.C, USA and Parliamentary fellowship from the Institute for Constitutional and Parliamentary Studies, New Delhi, India. She has a significant number of publications in legal and human rights issues. NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION ANNUAL REPORT, 2012 65