Monira Rahman
Monira Rahman ( Bengali মনিরা রহমান ; * 1966 ) is a Bangladeshi human rights activist. She is co-founder and since 2002 managing director of the human rights organization Acid Survivors Foundation (ASF), an aid organization founded on May 12, 1999 for victims of acid attacks in Bangladesh .
Monira Rahman is the fourth winner of the 2005 Human Rights Prize of the German section of Amnesty International , which was presented to her on March 19, 2006 in Berlin . The reason for the awarding of the award stated: "In the past, women and girls were often left with nothing but vegetation or suicide, today the ARSP turns the victims of acid attacks into human rights defenders who consciously show their faces to the public in order to prevent further crimes".
Monira Rahman has succeeded in drawing the general public's attention to these crimes and in activating support from the business world, scientists and artists for her action. Her Acid Survivors Foundation has become a model for similar aid organizations. In 2014, Shelina Ahmed succeeded the ARSP.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Everything is excellent here , Amnesty Journal August 2014
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| SURNAME | Rahman, Monira |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bangladeshi human rights activist, managing director of the human rights organization Acid Survivors Foundation (ASF) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1966 |