Fir (She/Her) is an independent consultant that specialises in children’s rights and protection against sexual violence. She applies intersectionality in the advocacy of children’s issues to safeguard the needs of children who have be systemically excluded and disinvested in. She founded Malaysia’s first youth-led child sexual abuse prevention NGO, Monsters Among Us (MAU). Currently, she serves as the interim President of Protect and Save the Children, a child rights NGO providing educational tools and capacity building for adults to combat sexual violence involving children. Previously, she was a Programme Officer with ARROW’s Information and Communications team for almost two years working on projects on gender equality and the harmful practice of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C). She is legally trained in civil law (LLB) and Syariah Practice (DLSA) and has been called to the Bar in 2021. Apart from her children’s right work, she is also an alumni of the YSEALI Academic Fellowship and participated in Indonesia’s Women Ulama Congress as an observer in 2022.
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