Timeela Manandhar is a doctoral candidate at the Institute of Peace and Armed Conflict (IFHV) and the Faculty of Law at the Ruhr-University Bochum (Germany). She is specialised in public (international) law, (business and) human rights, international economic law and international humanitarian law. In her previous work, she analysed the necessity of a binding legal instrument on BHR and assessed the content of the Zero Draft. Furthermore, she works as a research associate at the Institute of Development Research and Development Policies (IEE), where she works on labour rights in the supply chain of the apparel industry.