Durga Ghimire (born 12 May 1948) is a social worker and president of

ABC Nepal Agroforestry, Basic Health, and Cooperative Nepal (ABC Nepal) is a nonprofit, non governmental organisation working in Nepal that focuses on women's rights and works against human trafficking in Nepal. Created in 1987, ABC Nepal was among the fir ...

, a

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working in the field of women welfare and anti trafficking.

Early life and education

She was born on 12 May 1948 as a 5th child of father Ganesh Acharya and mother Shanta Acharya in Nepal's eastern city of Biratnagar. she has a Masters in Arts degree in Economics and Bachelors degree in Law (BL) from

Tribhuwan University Tribhuvan University (TU; ne, त्रिभुवन विश्वविद्यालय) is a public university located in Kirtipur, Kathmandu. Established in 1959, TU is the oldest university in Nepal. In terms of enrollment, it is ...

. She was married to Jagadish Ghimire, an eminent author, development worker and political analyst in Nepal.

Works

Besides being a social activist, she is also an author and writer. She has written several literary books and articles on women, women health trafficking and safe migration. She also presents papers on national, regional and international conferences, research articles in journals on the issues of women right, women empowerment, trafficking of girls and sex slavery. She was involved in student politics in the early part of her life and was jailed thrice for about thirteen months. She also serves as consultant for drafting new policies and plans related to issues of women and girls trafficking in Nepal. She has served for Centre for economic development and administration (CEDA), and Social Welfare Council of Nepal. During her stay in London with her husband, she worked for BBC Nepali Service as a news reader. She together with Prativa Subedi and Mira Aryal had started

initially intended to work in the field of Agroforestry, basic health and cooperative but later on realized the fact that they should be working against women rights and act for the girls being sold in Indian brothels and save them from their life in hell and focus towards anti trafficking campaigns. She is also the co-founder of Tamakoshi Sewa Samiti (TSS) that works in the rural villages of

Ramechhap Ramechhap Municipality is a municipality in Ramechhap District in Bagmati Province of Nepal. It was established on 2 December 2014 by merging the former village development committees Old-Ramechhap, Okhreni and Sukajor. At the time of the 2011 Ne ...

district of Nepal. It basically works to promotes the social lifestyle of people by improving their access to clean drinking water, gainful employment opportunities, better agriculture technique development and easy access to health facilities and educational services. Besides being the founding president of ABC Nepal, she is also the vice president of the Women Force Group, vice president of CAPWIP(Center for Asia Pacific Women in Politics) Founding member of the National Network Against Girls Trafficking (NNAGT) and Vice president of the Center for Asia Pacific Women in Politics (CASP).

International Recognitions and Awards

*Help for Self Help Award 2012,

Strømme Foundation The Strømme Foundation ( no, Strømmestiftelsen) is a Norwegian volunteer development organization that was established on September 21, 1976. The foundation provides assistance to poor people in the Global South to pull themselves out of poverty ...

*Reflection of Hope Award 2006, Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum

Books

*''Unko Samjhana '' *''Jailko Samjhana'' *''Staying Alive: Memories of women in prison'' *Prevention, Care, Repatriation and Re-integration of Rescued Girls (ABC/Nepal's experience) *''Cheliko Katha ra Bethaharu, Mera Abubhuti'' (The stories of daughters, My experiences) *''Chelibeti Bechbikhan ra Mahila Hinsa ko Bartaman Awastha'' (Current situation of girls trafficking and violence against women)(Collection of paper presented by Durga Ghimre) *''Sexual Exploitation of Nepalese Girls'' (with special reference to girls trafficking)

Personal life

She was married to Jagadish Ghimire, till his death in 2013.

References

External links

ABC Nepal: Biography of Durga Ghimire

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ghimire, Durga 1948 births Living people People from Biratnagar Nepalese social workers Human trafficking in Nepal Nepalese Hindus Nepalese activists Nepalese women activists Anti–human trafficking activists Tribhuvan University alumni Women's rights in Nepal