Begum Rokeya Padak

Begum Rokeya Padak বেগম রোকেয়া পদক
Awarded for	Women's activism
Location	Dhaka, Bangladesh
Country	Bangladesh
Presented by	Government of Bangladesh
First awarded	1995
Last awarded	2017

Begum Rokeya Padak, named after Begum Rokeya, is a Bangladeshi national honour conferred on individual women for their exceptional achievement. The award is given by the Ministry of Women & Children Affairs, Government of Bangladesh. The award recognises the pioneering contribution of an individual in empowering women and raising women's issues.^[1][2]

Award winners

As of December 2016, 41 awards had been presented:

• 1995 – Shamsunnahar Mahmud^[1]
• 1996 – Sufia Kamal^[3] and Nilima Ibrahim^[4]
• 1997 – Nurjahan Begum^[5]
• 1999 – Angela Gomes^[6]
• 2001 – Hena Das, Maliha Khatun and Beggzadi Mahmuda Nasir^[7][8]
• 2002 – Akhtar Imam^[9] and Zohra Begum Kazi^[10]
• 2003 – Taiyaba Majumder and Maleka Ashraf^[11]
• 2004 – Begum Husna Banu Khanam and Dilara Chowdhury^[12]
• 2005 – Rokeya Mannan^[13]
• 2007 – Latifa Akand and Hosne Ara Begum^[14]
• 2008 – Sultana Sarwat Ara Zaman and Nasrin Parvin Huq (posthumous)^[15][16]
• 2009 – Razia Hossain and Mamtaz Hossen^[17]
• 2011 – Begum Meherunnesa Khatun and Hamida Khanam^[18]
• 2013 – Hamida Banu and Jharna Dhara Chowdhury^[1]
• 2014 – Mamtaz Begum and Golap Banu^[2]
• 2015 – Bibi Russell and Taibun Nahar Rashid (posthumous)^[19]
• 2016 – Aroma Dutta and Begum Noorjahan^[20][21]

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