Mrinalini Rai
Director, Women4Biodivesity
A women’s rights and environmental rights advocate and Director of Women4Biodiversity , Mrinalini works on policy advocacy and research on intersection of gender equality and women and girls rights and environmental justice. She has been working many years in environmental governance and human rights issues particularly focused on integrating indigenous peoples’ and local communities’ rights, including women’s rights into the decisions of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). She is also the coordinator of the Women Caucus - UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) which supports women's civil society active engagement through active participation, information sharing and inputs into the policy space on biodiversity and environment related processes at the CBD