Meghna Guhathakurta

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Meghna Guhathakurta is a retired professor of international relations of the University of Dhaka. [1] [2] She is the executive director of Research Initiatives, Bangladesh. [3] [4] She is a member of the executive committee of the Ain o Salish Kendra. [5] She is a member of the advisory panel of the Interdisciplinary Institute of Human Security & Governance. [6]

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Guhathakurta's father, Jyotirmoy Guhathakurta, was killed in the Bangladesh Liberation War. [7] She was a member of the National Human Rights Commission, Bangladesh. [6] She is an advisor to the International Chittagong Hill Tracts Commission. [6]

Early life

Guhathakurta's father was Jyotirmoy Guhathakurta, professor of the University of Dhaka and provost of Jagannath Hall, and mother was Basanti Guhathakurta. [8] [9] His father was shot by Pakistan Army soldiers at the teachers dormitory of the University of Dhaka along with ANM Muniruzzaman on 25 March 1971 during Operation Searchlight. [8] Jyotirmoy Guhathakurta died five days later at Dhaka Medical College Hospital but his body was later disappeared. [8]

Guhathakurta studied at the Holy Cross Girls High School. [10] After Guhathakurta finished her master's degree at the University of Dhaka, she completed her at the University of York. [11]

Career

Guhathakurta joined the University of Dhak in 1984 in the Department of International Relations. [11] In June 1996, she organization a petition calling for an investigation into the abduction of Kalpana Chakma. [12]

Guhathakurta retired from the University of Dhaka in 2007. [11] She led the Research Initiatives, Bangladesh when it worked with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to carryout research on Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh in 2010. [13]

Guhathakurta called for attention to the Attacks by Islamic extremists in Bangladesh on secular activists and called on the government to not view them as isolated attacks. [14] She presented at the LSE-UC Berkeley Bangladesh Summit in 2018. [15]

Guhathakurta is an associate editor of Sage's Action Research Journal. [11] She is also an associate editor of the Journal of Social Studies published by the Centre for Social Studies. [11]

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