Sema Nassar is a human rights defender, working on documenting violence against women, arbitrary arrest and enforced disappearance in Syria.

She has organised training programmes for a group of human rights defenders on monitoring sexual and gender based violence as well as providing advice to local and international organizations in this field. She published a number of reports on the patterns of sexual violations, use of women as bargaining tools , and forgotten children in detention centers.

Currently working on a research about the impact of documenting violations in the Syrian conflict on the path of transitional justice in the Research Department at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

Sema is executive director and co-founder of Urnammu for Justice and Human Rights, member of the EuroMed Rights Gender Working Group (GWG) ,and Co-founder of “WE” network, a Framework to create safe environment for WHRD in MENA region.