Ms Ramgobin, founder and current executive director of Human Rights Development Initiative, a position she has held for 12 years, is nominated by Center for Sexuality and AIDS. She was admitted as an advocate in 1990 and practiced at the Durban Bar for 4 years. She has an LLM in International Human Rights Law from Lund University which obtained after graduating from University of Durban-Westville. Her CV demonstrates extensive community service and she has published extensively.

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More can be discovered by navigating her facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/asha.ramgobin. She has actively participated at a regional level and at the past 58th Session of African Commisison on Human and Peoples's Rights gave an address from the regional NGO Forum that clearly demonstrated her speaking truth to the power. After mentioning our courts had just proven that our President was not above the law, stated: "Ordinary Africans are facing a great betrayal at the hands of other Africans, for a mere thirty coins of silver, which as we know is the amount that Judas took when he betrayed the Messiah, Jesus. For a relatively small amount of money, many African people in positions of power have compromised themselves and developed a system of tax laws, policies and practices that enable big companies and individuals to deprive our governments of billions of USD"

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