Mr. Ali Ahmed Palh usually goes by Ali Palh. He is a practicing lawyer and member of the Karachi Bar Association with more than 15 years of experience in litigation, teaching law and protection of human rights and human rights defenders both at national and international level.

Ali has completed his LLB from Pakistan, LL.M (Masters in Law) degree in international law from the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy-Tufts University, United States and at present, he is candidate PhD in Law at the NOVA School of Law, NOVA University, Lisbon, Portugal.

Prior to Fletcher School, he was working in Sri Lanka as an unarmed civilian peacekeeper and later coordinator for the human rights defender’s project with Nonviolent peaceforce, an international NGO, does unarmed civilian peacekeeping (protection of civilian in conflict areas).

Before joining NOVA School of Law, he was leading RightsNow Pakistan, a civil society initiative, and his work focused on protection of human rights and improving the safety and security of human rights defenders.

Mr. Palh has also completed his Masters in Human Rights from the Institute of Human Rights And Peace Studies (IHRPS), Mahidol University, Salaya, Thailand.   Mr. Palh has also authored a book on the International Criminal Court published by a German publishing company available at amazon: http://www.amazon.

Mr. Ali Palh has practiced IHL, IHRL, IRL in Pakistan, Sri Lanka and other contexts and situation. He has expertise in Environment Law & Policy.