Labiba Rukhsana
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Thesis Title
The Role of the Rights to Water and Sanitation in Combating Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) – Combining Environmental Health and Justice in Bangladesh and India
Supervisors
Prof Philippe Cullet <pc38@soas.ac.uk>
Mr Oliver Cumming <oliver.cumming@lshtm.ac.uk>
Dr Jacqueline Knee <Jacqueline.Knee@lshtm.ac.uk>
Biography
Labiba is a doctoral researcher at SOAS and a recipient of the Bloomsbury Colleges Scholarship for the project titled “The Role of the Rights to Water and Sanitation in Combating Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) – Combining Environmental Health and Justice in Bangladesh and India”. The project takes an interdisciplinary approach to looking at the rights to water and sanitation in India and Bangladesh and the relationship between these rights and the rising threat from resistant microbes and its impacts on social and environmental justice, public health and development goals. The project is collaboratively supervised by Prof. Philippe Cullet at SOAS and Mr. Oliver Cumming and Dr. Jackie Knee at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM).
Just before starting this project, Labiba completed her LLM in Environmental Law and Sustainable Development at SOAS. Her LLM research looked at the overlaps and tensions between climate and migration laws and policies from critical climate and migrant justice perspectives. Labiba continues to be interested in how internal, regional and international migration and displacement relate to her.
Before studying the LLM, Labiba was a practising lawyer. She is qualified in England and Wales, and Ontario, Canada, with experience in Asylum, Immigration, Housing, Family and Civil practice. Outside of practice, Labiba worked and volunteered with organisations like Asylum Aid, Citizens Advice and Canadian Civil Liberties Association. Labiba grew up in Bangladesh, went to law school in the UK, completed her legal training and set up her own practice in Canada and is now settled in London, UK with her family of six, including two human and two fur babies.