nominated for Nobel Peace Prize 2005:

"It is not just in Bangladesh, everywhere in the world inhumanity and fundamentalism are major forces now! If we are to make a good future, more people need to be more proactive."

Rokeya Kabir

Bangladesh Nari Progati Sangha

Rokeya Kabir (born 1952) was one of the first activists in Bangladesh to forge the crucial link between grassroots women and the national and international women's movements. To materialize this global interconnection of grassroots movements, she and other women's activists set up the Bangladesh Nari Progati Sangha in 1986. For 25 years now, she has been working on women's rights and minorities issues, incurring the wrath of the country's fundamentalist forces. Undeterred, she wades on-downsizing her operations and functioning with practically no funding.