10 Facts About Tirana Hassan

Tirana Hassan is an Australian lawyer, social worker, and human rights activist.

Tirana Hassan was the executive director of Human Rights Watch, an international non-governmental organization based in New York City.

Tirana Hassan's childhood was spent in Singapore, Indonesia, the United States, and Australia.

Tirana Hassan attended high school at Scotch College in Australia and holds bachelor's degrees with honours in social work from the University of South Australia, and law from the University of Adelaide.

Tirana Hassan was based part-time at the Woomera Detention Centre.

From 2010 to 2015, Tirana Hassan was a senior researcher in Human Rights Watch's Emergencies Division, responsible for human rights investigations in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa.

In 2011 while conducting a research mission in Indonesia, Tirana Hassan was detained with fellow HRW researcher Andreas Harsono while investigating persecution and violence in the East Java region.

From 2015 to 2020, Tirana Hassan was director of Amnesty International's crisis response program, leading teams of investigators and building the organization's capacity in innovative research methodology, including using digital verification research methods for evidence collection in partnerships.

Tirana Hassan covered the 2015 Rohingya refugee crisis, when tens of thousands of Rohingya people were forcibly displaced from their villages and IDP camps in Rakhine State, Myanmar by the Myanmar security forces.

Tirana Hassan has worked with Medecins Sans Frontieres, the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, and was Save the Children's child protection program director for West Africa.