Muktasree Chakma is a researcher, journalist, feminist and rights activist. She also runs a platform called Supporting People and Rebuilding Communities- SPaRC working on minorities' rights in Bangladesh.
Sangat Core Group Members
AFGHANISTAN
BANGLADESH
Khushi Kabir
Sangat Core Group Members (BANGLADESH)
Khushi Kabir is the Coordinator of Nijera Kori, a civil society and feminist leader in Bangladesh and South Asia, and the One Billion Rising Bangladesh Coordinator.
Fawzia Khondker Eva
Sangat Core Group Members (BANGLADESH)
Fawzia Khondker Eva runs PROGROSHOR, is a freelance consultant and trainer, and is actively involved with the women’s movement in Bangladesh and South Asia.
INDIA
Bimla Chandrasekaran
Sangat Core Group Members (INDIA)
Bimla Chandrasekaran is the director of EKTA Resource Center for women based in Madurai, India. She is a part of several national and international networks, including as a steering committee member of Men Engage Alliance South Asia that seeks to engage men and boys in work on gender equality.
Suneeta Dhar
Sangat Core Group Members (INDIA)
Suneeta Dhar is Senior Advisor to Jagori, Delhi, a founder of Sangat, and a member of South Asian Women’s Fund and several other organizations and campaigns.
Sabrina Edwards
Sangat Core Group Members (INDIA)
Sabrina Edwards is the Founding Director of Darjeeling Mary Ward Social Centre and is actively involved with Loretto Convent’s social initiatives. She is based in Kolkata and is an alumna of Sangat.
Rukmini Rao
Sangat Core Group Members (INDIA)
Rukmini Rao is the Founder of Gramya, based in Hyderabad, and has led several organizations working on sustainable agriculture and development and women’s rights.
Roshmi Goswami
Sangat Core Group Members (INDIA)
Roshmi Goswami is the Founder of the North East Network and a feminist writer and researcher on issues related to human rights, peace and gender. She is based in Meghalaya and Assam.
Nandita Gandhi
Sangat Core Group Members (INDIA)
Nandita Gandhi is the Founder of Akshara, Mumbai, an activist-academic, and is part of several networks.
Anuradha Kapoor
Sangat Core Group Members (INDIA)
Anuradha Kapoor is the Founder of SWAYAM, Kolkata and is actively involved in campaigns and networks working to end violence against women and girls. l international networks.
MALDIVES
Aminath Nadira
Sangat Core Group Members (MALDIVES)
Aminath Nadira is the Deputy Minister for Health & Gender in the Ministry of Health and Gender, Maldives and an alumna of Sangat.
NEPAL
Rita Thapa
Sangat Core Group Members (NEPAL)
Rita Thapa is the founder of TEWA, Nagrik ko Awaz in Nepal and is part of several networks and campaigns in Nepal, South Asia and globally. Her main work is on peace.
Mona Sherpa
Sangat Core Group Members (NEPAL)
Mona Sherpa, a feminist activist, is the Deputy Country Director of Helvetas, Nepal, is actively involved with all civil society issues, and is an alumna of Sangat.
Bhagavati Adhikari
Sangat Core Group Members (NEPAL)
Bhagavati Adhikari is a young activist working as Program Coordinator of Nepal Mahila Ekata Samaj, a network of landless and slum dwellers. She is actively engaged in securing the shelter rights of slum dwellers and squatters and on gender issues.
Binda Pandey
Sangat Core Group Members (NEPAL)
Binda Pandey, a trade unionist and member of the Communist Party of Nepal, was a member of the Constituent Assembly of Nepal and a Deputy Member of the Governing Body of the International Labour Organization (ILO).
PAKISTAN
Azra Sayeed
Sangat Core Group Members (PAKISTAN)
Azra Sayeed is a political activist who runs Roots for Equity, a Karachi based organization that works with small and landless peasants. She works actively on women’s rights and peasant rights.
Ambreen Ahmad
Sangat Core Group Members (PAKISTAN)
Ambreen Ahmad, a leading child psychiatrist in Pakistan, is the Founder of Rozan, based in Islamabad.
SRI LANKA
Hasanah Cegu Isadeen
Sangat Core Group Members (SRI LANKA)
Hasanah Cegu Isadeen is an independent researcher, feminist activist and attorney-at-law. She is the co-author of Unequal Citizens: Muslim Women's Struggle for Justice and Equality in Sri Lanka.
Zainab Ibrahim
Sangat Core Group Members (SRI LANKA)
Zainab Ibrahim is a social sciences researcher, based in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Much of her work has addressed issues of women's rights including prevention of gender-based violence, and documentation of inter-religious violence and conflict.
Vasuki Jeyasankar
Sangat Core Group Members (SRI LANKA)
Vasuki Jeyasankar is a human rights activist, artist, and poet from northern Sri Lanka. She is an alumna of Sangat.
Kumudini Samuel
Sangat Core Group Members (SRI LANKA)
Kumudini Samuel is the Founder of Women and Media Collective and presently the South Asia Coordinator of DAWN.
Sangat Advisory Council Members
Maithree Wickramasinghe
Sangat Advisory Council Members
Maithree Wickramasinghe is Professor in English and the Founder Director of the Centre for Gender Studies at the University of Kelaniya. She is also a visiting professor at other HEIs including the University of Colombo and the University of Sussex. As a feminist scholar-activist and an international keynote speaker on gender studies, she has been working for institutional change in higher education and academia.
Sapna Malla Pradhan
Sangat Advisory Council Members
Sapna Malla Pradhan, a feminist activist, senior advocate, member of the Committee Against Torture (CAT) and Judge of the Supreme Court of Nepal. She is an ex-Constituent Assembly Member.
Sultana Kamal
Sangat Advisory Council Members
Sultana Kamal is a Bangladeshi lawyer and human rights activist. She is the chairperson of Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) and a civil society and women’s movement leader.
Rubina Saigol
Sangat Advisory Council Members
Rubina Saigol is an independent researcher based in Lahore, Pakistan. She is engaged in research on gender, religion, nationalism and the state.
Nimalka Fernando
Sangat Advisory Council Members
Nimalka Fernando is a Sri Lankan Human Rights Defender, attorney-at-law, President of the International Movement against All Forms of Discrimination (IMADR), Director of the Women's Political Academy and a member of Mothers and Daughters of Lanka.
Dr. Amrita Chhachhi
Sangat Advisory Council Members
Dr. Amrita Chhachhi is an Assistant Professor of gender, labour and poverty studies at the International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, Erasmus University. She has been actively engaged with Sangat and with other labour and peace networks in South Asia.
Anis Haroon
Sangat Advisory Council Members
Anis Haroon has been an active member of the Women’s Action Forum since 1981. She is a member of Human Rights Commission, Pakistan Association for Mental Health, and the Women Lawyers Association. She was president of Aurat Foundation from 1994 to 2004.
Aneesa Ahmad
Sangat Advisory Council Members
Aneesa Ahmad is an ex-Minister of Women and Children and the Co-Founder and Chairperson of Hope for Women, a non-governmental organization that aims to end violence against women and girls and promote gender equality and the empowerment of women in the Maldives.
Dr. Dina M. Siddiqi
Sangat Advisory Council Members
Dr. Dina M. Siddiqi is a cultural anthropologist with a strong interest in gender, human rights, Islam and transnational feminist politics. She divides her time between the United States and Bangladesh, where she teaches anthropology and gender studies at BRAC University.