Kamala Chandrakirana, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Feminist human rights activist
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Place of Birth: Jakarta, Indonesia
About Kamala Chandrakirana
- Kamala (or Nana) Chandrakirana is a feminist human rights activist for justice and democracy from Indonesia.
- She has been a member of the United Nations Working Group on discrimination against women in law and practice since 2011.
- 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.
- 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.
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