Chaumtoli Huq‘s chapter entitled “Opportunities and Limitations of the Accord: Need for a Worker Organizing Model,” explores the aftermath of Bangladesh’s Rana Plaza disaster and calls for the community’s need […]
Chaumtoli Huq is a leading expert on employment and labor law, migration and human rights with a focus on social movements in the US and South Asia and the founder/Editor of an innovative law and media non-profit focused called Law@theMargins (www.lawatthemargins.com).
Her scholarship explores interrelated issues under the broad theme of Transnational Labor Law and Social Movements which includes how law and social movements interact to create emancipatory visions of global labor and human rights laws. She has produced short documentaries related to her work in Bangladesh called Sramik Awaaz: Workers Voices, and has also created a digital archive of her work on tea workers in Bangladesh called Chai Justice (https://chaijustice.com/).
Huq has devoted her professional career to public service focusing on issues impacting workers in the US and South Asia. Along with holding leadership roles at Legal Services of NYC and MFY Legal Services, she also served as Director of the first South Asian Workers’ Rights Project at the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, the first staff attorney to the New York Taxi Workers Alliance.
She is the 2019 Access to Justice Leadership Award by the South Asian Bar Association of New York, the 2020 Daynard Public Interest Visiting Fellowship awarded to nationally recognized public interest leaders. She was a 2023 Fulbright US Scholar in Malaga, Spain and Visiting Scholar in Sicily researching South Asian migration to Europe.
You can follow her on bluesky @profhuq.bsky.social.
