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GNRC Coordinator - Central Asia and the Caucasus

r.ismail@gnrc.net

Ms. Razia Sultan Ismail Abbasi is currently International Convenor, Women's Coalition for Peace & Development with Dignity, and South Asia Regional Contact Person for the NGO Committee on UNICEF. She has also served as the Co-Convenor of the India Alliance for Child Rights and the First Coordinator of the South Asia NGO Alliance since 2001. 

From 1976 to 1999, she served in UNICEF, and was Chief of Advocacy and Information Services for UNICEF's India Country Programme from 1978. She was an executive committee member of the World YWCA from 1983 to 1999, and served as President of the World YWCA from 1991 to 1995. Her professional career has focused on advocacy and development. 

She has published many articles and papers on development with justice, peace, child rights, respect for diversity, gender justice in childhood, sustainable development, and the role and responsibility of the voluntary sector in policy formulation. She is a co-author of the book First India Social Development Report and the book A Place to Live. Ms. Ismail Abbasi has been instrumental in developing the GNRC not only in India, but also in the difficult-to-reach region of Central Asia and the Caucasus.

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