Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize 2005:

"We are all warriors in our own small orbits and these efforts will lead us towards a society free of religious obstacles, bring freedom from hunger, and end all kinds of discrimination."

Shirin Banu

Prip Trust

 Shirin Banu (born 1951) has blended very effectively her experience in politics and with the women's movement in her work on the empowerment of grassroots-level women leaders. She has motivated women leaders of the Union Parishad (grassroots legislative unit to coalesce into an elected women's forum that can collectively bargain to assert their rights and powers. She has also worked to create local women's groups to unite women in rural Bangladesh against fundamentalism.

Source: 1000peacewomen.org

Courtesy: Naina Shehzeen Ahmad