Rida Al Tubuly is a Co-Founder and Director of the organisation Together We Build It, an NGO that works towards the promotion of human rights and women’s political & economic empowerment. Dr. Rida Al-Tubuly fights for women’s rights and is interested in issues such as gender equality and political empowerment of women. Ms. Al-Tubuly is the executive manager of the 1325 Network in Libya, a network which advocates on UNSCR1325 (2000) in Libya, and a co-author of the first Libyan Civil Society Monitoring Report on UNSCR1325 (2000). She is a Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Tripoli. She holds an MSc from the University of Poland and was awarded her PhD from the University of London in 1997.