our Team Dr. Renu Adhikari (Rajbhandari)

Dr. Renu Rajbhandari is a founding chairperson and Executive Board Chairperson of Women's Rehabilitation Center (WOREC). She is also the founder Chairperson of the National Alliance of Women Human Rights Defenders (NAWHRD), and a founding coordinator of the Alliance Against Trafficking in Women and Children (AATWIN). Dr. Rajbhandari has served in a number of high-profile appointments, including National Rapporteur against trafficking in women and children for the Nepalese National Human Rights Commission and as adviser of the gender-based violence unit within the Office of the Prime Minister of Nepal and Council of Ministers in 2010. She was appointed as a member of the Board of Trustees of the UN Voluntary Fund on Contemporary Forms of Slavery in 2015. She was also appointed as a member of the high-level committee to investigate the key causes of violence against women in 2013. Further, currently she also serves as a board member of Forum Asia.