Alana

Dr. Alana Golmei is a social activist and a lawyer with the spirit of a humanist and has been relentlessly helping and spearheading for the cause of women and received prestigious awards for her work pertaining to human rights. Her meaningful efforts have touched over many lives directly, and have helped sensitize the authorities regarding the issue. Since then she has been a voice of the unheard, unseen, and unacknowledged. Since more than 10 years she has been spearheading in a fight for justice against racial discrimination and hate crimes meted out to Northeast people living in metro cities in India. She also advocated for restoration of peace, justice, democracy and human rights in Burma with a mission to strengthen relationships between the people of India and Burma for mutual understanding and solidarity. She has founded Pann Nu Foundation in 2013 at the backdrop of the rising violence against women in today’s world in the form of gender-based discriminations, physical and mental abuse, etc. The Foundation is committed to safeguard and uphold the dignity of women, and strive against all forms of discrimination and crimes against women irrespective of caste, class, race, religion and geographical region.