Jaspreet K. Singh is Co-Founder and Advocacy Strategist for ICAAD, a U.N. ECOSOC affiliated human rights organization that works at the intersection of law and technology to enhance access to justice for women, girls, indigenous, and minority communities while training the next generation of advocates. A human rights lawyer, artist, and technologist, Jaspreet has been working on human rights issues since 2006. He began working on issues of gender-based violence (GBV) in 2010, when he won three appellate asylum cases on behalf of Fijian women who had faced GBV.
In 2011, he won an important appellate decision on behalf of a Sikh guaranteeing judicial review of termination of asylum, and in 2016, he served as appellate counsel for a Sikh man who was tortured in violation of his extradition. In 2017, he conducted a landscape analysis on hate and bias in America for the Open Society Foundation. He was instrumental in developing two technology systems for data collection to support evidence-based advocacy campaigns in India (2016-2019) and in the Pacific Island region (2014-2024). He has also developed human rights clinical programming at Fordham Law School and University of Queensland in Australia. He enjoys exploring transdisciplinary strategies for promoting equality, and is eager to engage further with international human rights mechanisms and share these strategies with other advocates around the world.
