Attorney Bana Shoughry-Badarne, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, has been practicing human rights law since 1999. She holds LL.B degree from Hebrew University in Jerusalem and LL.M degree in international law from Washington College of Law, American University in Washington DC. Following her eight year tenure at the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) where she directed ACRI’s legal advocacy efforts on behalf of the Palestinian Bedouin community in the unrecognized villages, she became the Legal Director & the Legal Advisor of the Public Committee against Torture in Israel (PCATI). In July 2014 she became the Clinical director of the International Human Rights Clinic at the Hebrew University and teaches the course “Torture: legal prohibition and practice”. She also volunteers in several Palestinian feminist organizations. She has expertise in civil, political, social and cultural human rights in Israel in addition to women’s human rights and Islamic law.