Saira Rahman Khan is a Professor at the School of Law, BRAC University. BRAC-U is one of the universities whose students were at the forefront of the movement in the Dhaka north area of the City. The University and its students came under police attack several times during the Anti-quota Movement. Mary Aileen Diez-Bacalso is the Executive Director of FORUM-ASIA, a network of human rights organisations working across different parts of Asia. Its Secretariat is in Bangkok, with offices in Jakarta, Kathmandu, and Geneva.