Yagana Naseer

Over seven years of diverse work experience including within UNHCR covering protection, policy, statelessness in the Asia Pacific region working with refugees, asylum seekers and stateless persons. Operational and technical experience involving asylum capacity development for states, policy analysis, strategic advice to senior officials, family reunification, advocacy, stakeholder management, legal analysis, GRF, resettlement and complementary pathways demonstrating an extensive skillset of drafting papers and submissions encapsulating UNHCR doctrine and policy. Extensive experience facilitating, organizing and supporting national system strengthening initiatives on human rights, immigration detention reform, asylum, statelessness and migration law. Extensive experience in establishing and maintaining strong working relationships, including with governments, refugee sector stakeholders and interlocutors. Excellent written and oral communication skills. Juris Doctor (Masters) in Law and a Bachelor degree (Arts). With additional background and senior experience prior to UNHCR in the private sector, government and civil society supporting senior government officials including the Attorney-General, drafting legislation to manage corruption, providing policy and legal advice to all nine of the Police Commissioners of Australia and New Zealand. Experience facilitating training on international refugee law. Fluency in Dari.

Admitted as a Lawyer of the Supreme Court of Victoria - 04.2019

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) 2021-22

• I was selected as a volunteer for UNOCHA working on the development of a situational awareness framework for Afghanistan. I undertook searches of online sources of information for qualitative data sources such as news articles, reports, surveys, and baseline information on factors that may affect the humanitarian situation in Afghanistan. I was selected as one of the volunteers to attend the presentation of the pilot to the team in Geneva. The pilot was to be used as a way to manage humanitarian situations going forward and will be a great contribution to the delivery of humanitarian assistance worldwide.

Amnesty international 2015-16

• I worked alongside a Human Rights Lawyer in the Crisis Campaign Response sector. I demonstrated a high-level of research skills for reports on crises, produced within tight deadlines and managed different research tasks simultaneously. I drafted reports for the global Amnesty team, specifically one on the rise of forced disappearances during the Syrian War and provided assistance for Syrian refugees.