Fellows in Human Rights and Drug Policy

Bi Yingxi holds our PhD Fellowship in Human Rights and Drug Policy.

The Fellowship is a joint project between the International Centre on Human Rights and Drug Policy and the Irish Centre for Human Rights at the National University of Ireland Galway.

Yingxi holds an LL.B. in Law and an LL.M. in Criminal Law from Beijing Normal University.  She is currently doing her PhD at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, where her research focuses on the death penalty for drug offences in China.

Nayeli Urquiza Haas is our Research Fellow.

Nayeli is a PhD candidate in Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Kent, where her research is on the impact of drug policies and laws on the criminalisation of women acting as drug mules.  She holds a BA in Journalism from the University of King’s College in Canada, and an MA in International Relations from Webster University in Austria.

Nayeli worked for four years at the Permanent Mission of Mexico to the United Nations Office in Vienna.  She also has eight years of experience as a freelance journalist for television, radio, and press media in Mexico and in Austria.