G P O Box-723, Dhaka-1000
Bangladesh
Tel: 88 2 811 9917
Fax: 88 2 811 6148
E-mail: shireen@pradeshta.net
A women’s rights activist and gender and development specialist, Shireen has been a long-time advisor to DANIDA in Banlgadesh. Shireen is a dedicated advocate of women’s issues and is co-founder and an active member of Naripokkho. Launched in 1983, Naripokkho (pro-women or on the side of women) is one of the more significant human rights advocacy organizations in Bangladesh that was established as a response to the need for an autonomous ‘third view’ on the woman question in the country.
Shireen is an active member of the International Women’s Rights Action Watch/Asia Pacific, a member of the Advisory Group to the Participation cluster at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex and is Chair of the Board of the Women, Law and Development International (WLDI).
Shireen was member of the ARENA Executive Board 2000 – 2003 and is active in the ARENA programme on Gender.