"Womens rights must be upheld for full development" - Ela Bhatt talking about the link between human rights and the MDGs for the Every Human Has Rights campaign (http://www.everyhumanhasrights.org).
Biog: In 1972, Ela Bhatt founded the Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA - http://www.sewa.org) -- a trade union which now has more than 1,000,000 members. Founder Chair of the Cooperative Bank of SEWA, she is also founder and chair of Sa-Dhan (http://www.sa-dhan.net/) -the All India Association of Micro Finance Institutions in India- and founder-chair of the Indian School of Micro-finance for Women (http://www.ismw.org.in/).
Full biography: http://www.theelders.org/elders/ela-b...
Photo credits:
Photo 1 -- Mustafa Hassona
Photo 2 -- Mohammad Rakibul Hasan
Photo 3 -- Rolando Vellanueva
Photo 4 -- Isa Ebrahim Ali
Photo 5 -- UNAMID, Albert Gonzalez Farran
Photo 6 -- One World Action
Photo 7 -- Ahmed Hayman
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