词条 | Mangala Sharma |
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| name = Mangala Sharma | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = 1969 | birth_place = Tsirang District, Bhutan | death_date = | death_place = | nationality = Bhutanese | other_names = | occupation = | known_for = Winner of Ginetta Sagan Fund Award in 1997 }}Mangala Sharma (born 1969[1]) is a Bhutanese human and women's rights activist, the first winner of the Ginetta Sagan Fund Award in 1997.[2] Born in Tsirang, she was exiled from the country in March 1992{{Efn|Some sources say she fled with her husband and child in 1990[3]}} after being outspoken against the government's "One Nation, One People" policy and discrimination against ethnic minorities, known as Lhotshampas.[4] Since, she has formed the Bhutanese Refugees Aid for Victims of Violence (BRAVE), a self-help organization dedicated to assisting affected refugees from Bhutan. BRAVE facilitates counseling and training in all eight of the Bhutanese refugee camps in Nepal.[2] In 1995 sharma took some of the women refugees to Beijing in China to the International Women Conference. There she could get the help United States Government, United Nations and Australian Government.[5] Sharma was granted asylum and moved to the United States in 2000 and began working for the Refugee Women Network based in Georgia. She moved to Roseville, Minnesota, US in November 2007, where she has started the Nirvana Center to assist resettled families.[4] References
1. ^{{cite book|last=Gold|first=Taro|title=The Tao of Mom: The Wisdom of Mothers from East to West|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GS27dV8OoOoC&pg=PT113|date=5 February 2013|publisher=Andrews McMeel Publishing|isbn=978-0-7407-8743-0|page=113}} {{Ginetta Sagan Fund Award winners}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Sharma, Mangala}}{{Bhutan-bio-stub}}2. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.amnestyusa.org/about-us/grants-and-awards/ginetta-sagan-fund/ginetta-sagan-award-winners|title=Ginetta Sagan Award Winners|publisher=Amnesty International|accessdate=26 April 2014}} 3. ^{{cite book|last=Cahill|first=Kevin M.|title=A Framework for Survival: Health, Human Rights, and Humanitarian Assistance in Conflicts and Disasters|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Sn_VQ905pGcC&pg=PA58|year=1999|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-0-415-92235-7|page=58}} 4. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://from-exile-to-resettlement.weebly.com/mangala-sharma2.html|title=Mangala Sharma|publisher=From Exile to Resettlement|accessdate=26 April 2014}} 5. ^Born in Bhutan and exiled 7 : 1969 births|Living people|Bhutanese human rights activists|Women's rights activists|People from Tsirang District|Bhutanese emigrants to the United States|People from Roseville, Minnesota |
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