Sulakshana Rana

Sulakshana Rana works as a program coordinator for a non-governmental, nonprofit organization called Saathi (meaning ‘friend’ in Nepali), which was established in 1992 to address the contemporary challenges Nepali women face.  Rana oversees the trafficking and migration program and works with women and girls in the adult entertainment sector. She documents emerging trends and patterns in this sector and works to create a basis for linkages to unsafe migration, trafficking and health consequences.

Rana says that HRAP allowed her to “gain a better perspective on the work being conducted by different organizations on trafficking, sex workers rights and prostitution. Meeting the organizations in person and interacting with them assisted in understanding the accomplishment and challenges we as women rights activists face in our work.” She adds that the program has helped her to “build networks with people doing similar work. HRAP has given me the space to reflect on the success and gaps in the work I am doing and helped me gain a better vision of how I would want to carry forward the work now.”

By 2009 Advocate Elsadig Elsheikh of Sudan/USA