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Meenakshi Ganguly

Meenakshi Ganguly

South Asia Director Follow @mg2411

Meenakshi Ganguly, South Asia director at Human Rights Watch, oversees the organization’s work in the region. Before taking over as South Asia director in 2010, she served as Human Rights Watch’s South Asia researcher since 2004.

Ganguly has worked on a broad range of issues including police reform, sexual violence, discrimination based on religion or caste, freedom of expression, and armed conflict. In India, she has researched abuses surrounding the sectarian riots in Gujarat, the lack of justice in Punjab, issues of religious freedom, the failure to protect India’s vulnerable communities – including those affected by the Maoist conflict – and abuses related to the fighting in the states of Manipur and Jammu & Kashmir. She has also advocated for the protection of women and children from violence, including sexual abuse, and for a human rights approach to India’s foreign policy.

In Nepal, Ganguly continues to press for accountability around rights violations during the armed conflict and for reform to bring abusive members of the government forces and the Maoist combatants to justice. With the end of Sri Lanka’s conflict, she advocated for human rights abusers in the Sri Lankan military, as well as in the Tamil Tigers’ forces, to be held accountable. Ganguly has researched the issue of Bhutanese refugees in Nepal, as well as discrimination against ethnic Nepali citizens living in Bhutan. She has documented human rights violations in Bangladesh and called for better protections of labor rights. Additionally, she has worked on issues such as protection of children during conflict, discrimination against people living with HIV/AIDS, and the rights of men who have sex with men. She has been published in several newspapers, websites, and journals.

Prior to joining Human Rights Watch, Ganguly served as the South Asia correspondent for Time Magazine, covering Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, India, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. Ganguly has a Masters in Sociology from the Delhi School of Economics.

Articles Authored

  • April 10, 2018 Dispatches

    Prejudice Flares After Rape, Murder of Muslim Child in India

  • April 6, 2018 Commentary

    For Peace in Kashmir, India Must Address Rights Abuses by Security Forces

    Published in Scroll.in
  • March 20, 2018 Commentary

    Security Forces in India Engage in Extrajudicial Killings, Then are Protected

    Published in Scroll.in
  • March 7, 2018 Dispatches

    State of Emergency Declared in Sri Lanka

  • March 1, 2018 Commentary

    Engaging in “Whataboutery” Instead of Protecting Rights

    Published in Brown Journal of World Affairs
  • February 22, 2018 Dispatches

    India Gets Another Chance Protecting Transgender Rights

  • January 12, 2018 Dispatches

    Pakistan Needs to Protect Children from Sexual Abuse

  • January 10, 2018 Commentary

    The Time Has Come for India to Stop Making Criminals of People Who Love Each Other

    Published in Newsweek
  • October 20, 2017 Commentary

    India’s Response to the Rohingya Crisis Is Timid

    Published in Hindustan Times
  • September 27, 2017 Dispatches

    Burma is Playing Politics with the Dead

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Reports Authored

  • September 29, 2016

    “No Right to Live”

    “Kneecapping” and Maiming of Detainees by Bangladesh Security Forces

  • July 30, 2012

    “Between Two Sets of Guns”

    Attacks on Civil Society Activists in India’s Maoist Conflict

  • February 1, 2011

    The “Anti-Nationals”

    Arbitrary Detention and Torture of Terrorism Suspects in India

  • December 9, 2010

    “Trigger Happy”

    Excessive Use of Force by Indian Troops at the Bangladesh Border

  • October 16, 2009

    Still Waiting for Justice

    No End to Impunity in Nepal

  • August 4, 2009

    Broken System

    Dysfunction, Abuse, and Impunity in the Indian Police

  • September 29, 2008

    “These Fellows Must Be Eliminated”

    Relentless Violence and Impunity in Manipur

  • July 14, 2008

    “Being Neutral is Our Biggest Crime”

    Government, Vigilante, and Naxalite Abuses in India’s Chhattisgarh State

  • October 17, 2007

    Protecting the Killers

    A Policy of Impunity in Punjab, India

  • May 16, 2007

    Last Hope

    The Need for Durable Solutions for Bhutanese Refugees in Nepal and India

  • September 11, 2006

    "Everyone Lives in Fear"

    Patterns of Impunity in Jammu and Kashmir

  • May 25, 2005

    After the Deluge

    India's Reconstruction Following the 2004 Tsunami

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