RAWAN ARRAF

Director and Principal Lawyer, Australian Centre for International Justice

Rawan is an activist and lawyer with ten years of legal experience in refugee protection, administrative law and international human rights law. She is the founder and principal lawyer of the ACIJ, a specialist legal centre working to develop Australia's capacity to conduct investigations and prosecutions of the international crimes offences in Australia's Criminal Code. Previously, Rawan worked at the Refugee Advice & Casework Service (RACS) providing a wide range of protection advice to people seeking asylum in Australia. She is actively engaged with lawyers and organisations working in universal jurisdiction litigation abroad. In 2018, she trained with the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) in Berlin, working on universal jurisdiction matters.