Global InformationMelissa Upreti information
Melissa Upreti (born 1969) is a Nepalese lawyer and human rights expert who was the founding attorney and regional director of the Center for Reproductive Rights' Asia program.[1][2] She is the Senior Director of Program and Global Advocacy at the Center for Women's Global Leadership at Rutgers University[3] and a member of the United Nations Working Group on Discrimination against Women and Girls.[4]
Upreti is a Nepalese citizen born in the United Kingdom. She has a law degree from Nepal[5] and an LL.M. from Columbia Law School.[3] She is a fellow of the University of Toronto Law Faculty's International Reproductive and Sexual Health Law Program.[3] She was a co-petitioner in the case Lakshmi Dhikta v Nepal, which recognised access to abortion as a constitutionally protected right in Nepal.[3]
Upreti has written extensively on reproductive rights.
- ^ Culp-Ressler, Tara (9 March 2015). "Abortion Bans Are Putting Women Behind Bars". Think Progress. Retrieved 6 March 2020.
- ^ "Child Marriages in Nepal: A Long-standing Concern Awaiting Eradication!". Nepali Sansar. 26 August 2018.
- ^ a b c d "Melissa Upretti, Independent Expert". Nairobi Summit. 21 October 2019.
- ^ "Melissa Upreti: Senior Director, Program and Global Advocacy". Rutgers.
- ^ Julia Sudbury, ed. (18 March 2014). Global Lockdown: Race, Gender, and the Prison-Industrial Complex. Routledge. p. 299year=2014. ISBN 9781317793670.