Neelam Chaturvedi (b. 1 July 1960 at Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh) is an Indian women's human rights defender and activist.

She works to create awareness about gender and caste violence in India and build networks to combat violence against women. She seeks to increase women's ability to participate in democratic ins*utions through capacity building and promote rehabilitation and counselling services for street children and children involved in child labour. She founded the first women's shelter in her region and campaigns against violence and sexual har*ment of women in her community. Her work for women's rights has been highlighted by Amnesty International.

As a trade union activist in the 1970s she became involved in work on women's issues withinthe trade union movement and in Indian society as a whole. She organised women workers toraise issues of physical and mental violence, the dowry system, rape, pros*ution and sexual har*ment.

She is the founder or co-founder of Indian women's organizations including Mahila Manch, Sakhi Kendra and the National Alliance of Women's Organisations.

She is a core member of the National Alliance of Women's Organisations (NAWO) and a leader of the Opposition (for the Democratic Party) in the NAWO's Indian Women's Parliament.

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• Increasing incidents of dowry deaths or har*ment (The Times of India)