Razia Sultana

Overview

Razia Sultana born July 5, 1973 Rakhine, Myanmar. Sultana is a Rohingya lawyer, researcher and educator specializing in trauma, mass rape and trafficking of Rohingya girls and women, now practicing law in Bangladesh. She has been working with Rohingya women and girls in the refugee camps in Bangladesh documenting the stories of women and girls who fled Myanmar, exposing the widespread and systematic use of sexual violence during ‘clearance operations’ against the Rohingya. She is a Senior Researcher with Kalandan Press, a coordinator of the Free Rohingya Coalition, Director of Arakan Rohingya National Organization’s women section and the founder of Rohingya Women Welfare.

Quotations

“First she must trust in herself. She must grow the confidence to say: Yes I can. I am not a burden. If women can think that, they can achieve anything.”