Media Coverage

Select mentions of Ashka Naik’s work and ideas featured in:

The Pushback on Women’s Rights Must Be Stopped – Launch Event, Geneva

2023 Nova Annual Conference Session 2: “A Matter of Justice” – Conference Presentation by Ashka Naik

Ashka Naik – Food Justice and Childhood Obesity: Industry Needs the intervention, Not Our Kids

Podcast: What’s in a Name? UltraProcessed Food or Food Product with Ashka Naik, 2025

WEBINAR Rethinking Corporate Accountability in Global Health Beyond Rankings & Voluntary Measure – UNU IIGH

Reimagined in America Webinar: Moving Food and Beverage Corporate Policies Toward Equity – Presentation by Ashka Naik

Stop the Pushback on Women’s Rights

Ashka Naik – Exposing the Tactics of Food Giants: Progress toward Corporate Accountability

2025 US Tobacco Industry Interference Index Launch

US Election: કોણ બનશે રાષ્ટ્રપતિ? જો પરિણામો સુપ્રીમ કૉર્ટ પહોંચ્યા તો શું? [BBC News]

Donald Trump VS Joe Biden: વિશ્વના સૌથી શક્તિશાળી નેતા માટે આજે થયું મતદાન: US Election 2020 (BBC News]

America: Abortion Law से ग़ुस्से में महिलाएं (BBC News)

Women, Power, Food

Ashka Naik is a public policy expert and a social scientist with more than two decades of international experience in food and climate justice movements, corporate accountability policies, politics of global health, multilateral negotiations, and women’s rights. She has served in leadership roles at several civil society organizations, and has been deeply engaged with social movements on food, women, peace, and democracy. Naik contributes as an advisor, expert, and invited faculty to a multitude of policy discourses on food systems, power, public health, and political accountability. She has worked closely with the WHO and the UN system on the issues of food justice, gender, governance, and accountability. Naik’s doctoral work has focused on the intersection of food security, power, and women’s rights in South Asia. Her work has been covered by media outlets such as the New York Times, Washington Post, and Al Jazeera, and academic platforms such as Stanford Social Innovation Review, World Nutrition, and Development.

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