Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
07KATHMANDU154
2007-01-22 09:12:00
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Embassy Kathmandu
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UNCLAS KATHMANDU 000154
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
DEPT FOR SCA/INS, S/WE: SASHA MEHRA AND GERDA LANE
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: SCUL KWMN NP
SUBJECT: NEPAL: FIVE MOST INFLUENTIAL WOMEN
REF: 06 STATE 202341
UNCLAS KATHMANDU 000154
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
DEPT FOR SCA/INS, S/WE: SASHA MEHRA AND GERDA LANE
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: SCUL KWMN NP
SUBJECT: NEPAL: FIVE MOST INFLUENTIAL WOMEN
REF: 06 STATE 202341
1. (SBU) Per reftel, please find below the list of the five
most influential women in Nepal:
- Chitra Lekha Yadav, The Honorable Member of Interim
Parliament and Deputy Speaker, Phone: 977-1-554-8085 or
977-1-552-0278, email: yadavchitralekha@yahoo.com
- Urmila Aryal, The Honorable Member of Interim Parliament
and State Minister for Women, Children, and Social Welfare,
Phone: 977-1-663-7638
- Sapana Pradhan-Malla, President, Development Law Associates
(an organization working to gain legal rights for women),
Phone: 977-1-426-6415, Mobile: 977-98510-23630, email:
fwld@andolan.wlink.com.np
- Anuradha Koirala, President, Maiti Nepal (an organization
that works with trafficked women),Phone: 977-1-449-4816 or
977-1-449-2904
- Manjushree Thapa, Author (most recently of "Forget
Kathmandu, an Elegy for Democracy"),Phone: 977-1-447-2648
2. (SBU) There are two other women who would qualify as
influential, but are not in the top five:
- Sujata Koirala, The Honorable Member of Interim Parliament
(and daughter of Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala),
Phone: 977-1-437-5368 or 977-1-437-5701, Mobile:
977-98020-30291 or 977-98510-36333
- Ambika Shrestha, Proprietor of Dwarika's Hotel (a leading
five-star hotel in Kathmandu with traditional acrhitecture),
Phone: 977-1-447-0770
3. (U) The contact person at Post for women's issues is
Rodney Hunter (HunterRM@state.gov).
MORIARTY
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
DEPT FOR SCA/INS, S/WE: SASHA MEHRA AND GERDA LANE
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: SCUL KWMN NP
SUBJECT: NEPAL: FIVE MOST INFLUENTIAL WOMEN
REF: 06 STATE 202341
1. (SBU) Per reftel, please find below the list of the five
most influential women in Nepal:
- Chitra Lekha Yadav, The Honorable Member of Interim
Parliament and Deputy Speaker, Phone: 977-1-554-8085 or
977-1-552-0278, email: yadavchitralekha@yahoo.com
- Urmila Aryal, The Honorable Member of Interim Parliament
and State Minister for Women, Children, and Social Welfare,
Phone: 977-1-663-7638
- Sapana Pradhan-Malla, President, Development Law Associates
(an organization working to gain legal rights for women),
Phone: 977-1-426-6415, Mobile: 977-98510-23630, email:
fwld@andolan.wlink.com.np
- Anuradha Koirala, President, Maiti Nepal (an organization
that works with trafficked women),Phone: 977-1-449-4816 or
977-1-449-2904
- Manjushree Thapa, Author (most recently of "Forget
Kathmandu, an Elegy for Democracy"),Phone: 977-1-447-2648
2. (SBU) There are two other women who would qualify as
influential, but are not in the top five:
- Sujata Koirala, The Honorable Member of Interim Parliament
(and daughter of Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala),
Phone: 977-1-437-5368 or 977-1-437-5701, Mobile:
977-98020-30291 or 977-98510-36333
- Ambika Shrestha, Proprietor of Dwarika's Hotel (a leading
five-star hotel in Kathmandu with traditional acrhitecture),
Phone: 977-1-447-0770
3. (U) The contact person at Post for women's issues is
Rodney Hunter (HunterRM@state.gov).
MORIARTY