Barbara Berardi Tadié is a Ph.D. student in Social Anthropology and Ethnology at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHEES) in Paris, and an associate researcher at the Centre d’Études Himalayennes (CEH-CNRS) and Centre d’Études de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud (CEIAS-CNRS). Her research focuses on human rights, civil society associations, and justice in Nepal. One of her publications (“Discorsi giuridici e tecnologie sociali in Nepal: analisi di un contenzioso strategico,” in A. De Lauri (ed.), 2013, Antropologia giuridica, Mondadori Università) also deals with Public Interest Litigations and gender rights in Nepal. She has also worked for international NGOs in Nepal and Yemen.