Bandana Rana is one of the leading advocates of the women’s movement in Nepal and the world. She is the highest-ranking Nepali woman to lead the UN’s world women committee. She has been promoting women’s rights, gender equity and equality through organizations and networks she founded and led. She has worked from grassroots to national, regional and global levels in programmes for combating gender-based violence and harmful practices against women and girls. She has led advocacy programmes linking United Nations frameworks provided by the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) and Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (BDPA). As a broadcast journalist, she has led communication and media programming for addressing gender stereotypes and changing mindsets. She is the former Chair of the National Women’s Commission Nepal (NWCN). She is the Vice-Chair of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women Committee (UNCEDAWC). She is the recipient of the 2016 Woman of Distinction Award conferred by the NGO Committee on the Status of Women, New York (NGO CSW/ NY) for her dedicated work and contribution to gender equality globally. She was a member of the United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Advisory Group for the Global Study on the Implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 and a member of UN-Women’s Global Civil Society Advisory Group from 2012 to 2015. Recently, she has been re-elected to the CEDAW Committee for the second term (2021-2024).

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