
Fir (She/Her) advocates for children’s rights in all of their diversities. She believes that it is imperative to apply the feminist intersectionality framework in the advocacy of children’s issues to ensure that children who have been systemically excluded and disinvested do not fall through the cracks. She founded Malaysia’s first youth-led child sexual abuse prevention NGO, Monsters Among Us (MAU). Currently, she serves as the 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). Fir also supports other organisations and projects relating to child rights, bodily autonomy, gender and inclusivity as a consultant. 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 rights work, she is also an alumnus of the YSEALI Academic Fellowship and has participated in Indonesia’s Women Ulama Congress as an observer in 2022.