NEPAL: FIVE MOST INFLUENTIAL WOMEN

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