Razia Sultana (lawyer)

Razia Sultana is a Bangladeshi lawyer who was born in Myanmar and has won International Women of Courage Award 2019.[1][3][4][5][6][7]

Razia Sultana
Born1973
Maungdaw, Rakhine, Myanmar
NationalityBangladeshi[1][2]
OccupationLawyer, educator, human rights activist

Biography

Razia Sultana was born in 1973 in Maungdaw, to a Rohingya family.[8] She grew up in Bangladesh.[9]

She is working for Rohingya people. She is working for other ethnic people of Myanmar too. She is a lawyer, educator and human rights activists. She works especially for Rohingya girls and women.

She has published two reports after taking interviews of hundreds Rohingyas. The name of the reports are Witness to Horror and Rape by Command.[8] In these report she has told the world about sexual violence to Rohingya girls and women's by Burmese security forces. She has also contributed to The Killing Fields of Alethankyaw which was published by Kaladan Press.[8]

Razia Sultana is working ad a coordinator of the Free Rohingya Coalition (FRC) and a director of the Arakan Rohingya National Organization's (ARNO) women's section too.[8]

Publications
  • Witness to Horror[10]
  • Rape by Command[10]
  • The Killing Fields of Alethankyaw (Contributor)

References
  1. "2019 International Women of Courage Award". U.S. Department of State. Archived from the original on March 3, 2019. Retrieved March 9, 2019.
  2. "Rohingya lawyer gets US award". The Daily Star. Retrieved April 20, 2019.
  3. "Rohingya lawyer Razia Sultana wins Int'l Women of Courage Award". Dhaka Tribune.
  4. "Rohingya lawyer Razia Sultana wins Women of Courage award". Daily Sun. Retrieved April 20, 2019.
  5. "Rohingya lawyer Razia wins Women of Courage award". The Independent. Retrieved April 20, 2019.
  6. "রোহিঙ্গা আইনজীবী রাজিয়া পেলেন যুক্তরাষ্ট্রের 'সাহসী নারী' পদক". Prothom Alo (in Bengali).
  7. "বাংলাদেশিসহ ১০ সাহসী নারী যুক্তরাষ্ট্রে পুরস্কৃত". Bangladesh Pratidin (in Bengali).
  8. "Biographies of the Finalists for the 2019 International Women of Courage Awards". U.S. Department of State. Archived from the original on 2019-03-05.
  9. "'I Am Doing This for Every Place Where Rape Is a Weapon of War.' Meet the Woman Documenting Sexual Violence Against Myanmar's Rohingya". TIME. Retrieved April 20, 2019.
  10. "Witness to Horror: In conversation with advocate Razia Sultana". The Daily Star.
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