Kamala Chandrakirana

Chandrakirana speaks at Komnas Perempuan (National Commission for Violence Against Women) 2009 strategic planning meeting

Kamala (or Nana) Chandrakirana (born 1960) is a feminist human rights activist for justice and democracy from Indonesia.[1] She has been a member of the United Nations Working Group on discrimination against women in law and practice since 2011.[2] She spent over a decade founding and serving Indonesia's National Commission on Violence Against Women, the country's primary mechanism for women's human rights. She was first Secretary General from 1998 to 2003, then Chairperson from 2003 to 2009.[3] In 2009, she co-founded Musawah, a "global movement for equality and justice in the Muslim family", with other activists, academics and progressive religious scholars.[4]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference APWLD Nana was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "UN expert group urges new Icelandic authorities to sustain gender empowerment efforts". UN News Centre. 23 May 2013. Retrieved 6 December 2014.
  3. ^ "Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in practice - Members". Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights (OHCHR) www.ohchr.org. Retrieved 28 November 2014.
  4. ^ "Kamala Chandrakirana". Yale worldfellows.yale.edu. Retrieved 28 November 2014.