Nadia Aït Zaï, born in Algeria, serves as an expert in the Economic and Social Rights Subgroup of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights. She also teaches at the Faculty of Law at the University of Algiers. She has devoted her career to women's issues and children's rights. In 2002, she created the Centre d’Information et de Documentation sur les Droits de l’Enfant et de la Femme/ Fondation pour l'Egalité, (The Information and Documentation Center on the Rights of the Child and the Woman / Foundation for Equality).