Umavathni Vathanaganthan has experience and expertise as Human Rights researcher. She has been working as Collective Operational Officer of Collective of Applied Law and Legal Realism (CALR) for three years. She is currently the assistant to H.E. Edmund Bon, the Malaysian Representative to the AICHR (ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights). She holds MA in Human Rights from the University of Manchester, UK, and she was awarded the Federal Government Scholarship (JPA) to take Bachelor of Social Science (Hons) in International Studies at Universiti Malaysia Sarawak.