Mangala Sharma

Mangala Sharma is a Bhutanese human and womens rights activist, the first winner of the Ginetta Sagan Fund Award in 1997. Born in Tsirang, she was exiled from the country in March 1992 after being outspoken against the governments One Nation, One People policy and discrimination against ethnic minorities, known as Lhotshampas. Since, she has formed the Bhutanese Refugees Aid for Victims of Violence , a selfhelp organization dedicated to assisting affected refugees from Bhutan. BRAVE facilitates counseling and training in all eight of the Bhutanese refugee camps in Nepal.

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