Kamala Chandrakirana

Kamala (or Nana) Chandrakirana (born 1960) is a feminist human rights activist for justice and democracy from Indonesia.

[3] In 2009, she co-founded Musawah, a "global movement for equality and justice in the Muslim family", with other activists, academics and progressive religious scholars.

[4] Chandrakirana has worked on issues of women's human rights, social justice and democracy for over two decades.

[1] During Indonesia's conflict-ridden period of 2003–2009, Chandrakirana chaired the National Commission on Violence Against Women, which documented critical violations of women's human rights, including in Aceh, Papua, Poso (Central Sulawesi), as well as the rapes of May 1998 and the killings of 1965.

Chandrakirana has been associated with a number of regional networks in the Asia Pacific, including the Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD), International Women's Rights Action Watch, Asia Pacific (IWRAW AP), the Southeast Asian Women's Caucus on ASEAN, and Musawah, the global movement for equality and justice in the Muslim family.