OPBP Committee

Rawletta Barrow
Deputy Chair

Rawletta is a DPhil Law candidate at the University of Oxford and a Rhodes Scholar. She holds a Bachelor of Civil Law from the University of Oxford and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of the West Indies (Cave Hill). Her doctoral research project investigates the human rights impact of merit-based school segregation in Guyana and the United Kingdom, under the supervision of Professor Sandra Fredman. At Oxford, Rawletta is a Researcher on the Oxford Human Rights Hub's Right to Early Childhood Care and Education project and a Blog Editor for the Hub's blog. She also serves as Co-convener of the Decolonising Law Discussion Group and is a 2026 Graduate Resident of the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights. She has broad research interests and experience in children's rights, socio-economic rights, equality law, and constitutional law.

Antonia von Strachwitz 
Communications Officer and Research Officer

Antonia is an MPhil Law candidate at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on access to judicial remedy in cases of business-related human rights abuse.

Prior to Oxford, Antonia studied law at the University of Bonn in Germany and completed her First State Examination. During her studies in Bonn, she successfully completed the University’s Honors Program and worked as a Student Assistant in Public Law. She holds an LL.M. from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Antonia is a 2026 Graduate Research Resident at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights. Her research interests lie in human rights law, business and human rights, and international litigation.

Deniz Yildiz
Research Officer

Deniz is pursuing an MSc in International Human Rights Law at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on the representative standing of NGOs before international human rights bodies. She holds an LL.B. from Istanbul University and an LL.M. in Public Law from Koç University.

Deniz’s professional background includes serving as a Registry Lawyer at the European Court of Human Rights. She has also worked with Amnesty International Turkey and previously practised as a lawyer in Istanbul. Her interests centre on international human rights litigation, differing approaches to access to justice across international human rights bodies, and the practical role of civil society actors in international legal processes. In September 2025, she contributed as a researcher to an Oxford Pro Bono Publico report on transnational repression targeting human rights defenders.

Taqbir Huda 
Research Officer

Taqbir Huda is a Clarendon Scholar (DPhil in Law) at The Queen’s College, Oxford and a Senior Fellow at the Tech Global Institute. Prior to Oxford, Taqbir worked undercover as a regional researcher at Amnesty International, investigating over 50 cases of egregious human rights violations in Bangladesh leading to the July 2024 uprising. Taqbir has over a decade of experience leading research and advocacy for several NGOs in Bangladesh, including BRAC (the largest NGO in the world) and the Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust, where he helped draft more than ten public interest litigation cases before the Supreme Court of Bangladesh, including one that led to reform of the  Evidence Act 1872. He has also consulted for the ILO, Human Rights Watch, Equality Now, Asia Justice Coalition, and Ipas. Taqbir graduated top of his class in law from SOAS University of London, completed an MSc in Criminology at Oxford (distinction), and earned an LLM from Harvard Law School (Dean’s Scholar).

Tomás A. Guido 
Research Officer

Tomás is an Argentine criminal lawyer specialising in white-collar crime and the financing of terrorism. He is currently pursuing an MSc in International Human Rights Law at the University of Oxford. As a partner at a leading criminal law firm in Argentina, he has practised for nearly a decade on complex domestic and transnational criminal matters. He is also a co-founder of an Argentine non-governmental organisation engaged in the litigation of crimes against humanity under the principle of universal jurisdiction, including proceedings that have led to the issuance of arrest warrants against former heads of State and senior government officials. Through this organisation, he has also collaborated with universities worldwide on research and litigation initiatives addressing serious human rights violations across diverse global contexts. His work lies at the intersection of legal practice, academic inquiry, and strategic litigation, with a sustained focus on accountability for international crimes.