Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize 2005:

"If there is to be a positive change in society, someone has to sacrifice."

Monowara Begum Monu

Mohila Muktijodha Samiti

Monowara Begum (born 1953), one of the 1971 Bangladesh war of liberation's best-known freedom-fighters, today battles on various beachheads and is active in advocacy work as well. The mutilated post-war economy saw Monowara get down to building the Bangladesh of a collective dream. She has worked for more than three decades, both within the government system and through the Mohila Muktijodha Samiti (women freedom-fighters' cooperative), to make the government system accountable to the greater good.