Board

Chat Garcia Ramilo – Philippines (Chair)
Chat Garcia Ramilo has been specializing in gender, information and communication technology and women’s electronic networking for the last nine years. Ms. Ramilo is currently the Global Coordinator of the Association for Progressive Communications Women’s Networking Support Programme (APC WNSP).  She led the development of her organisation’s ground-breaking Gender Evaluation Methodology (GEM) Tool for the internet and information and communication technologies and the development of ICT strategies addressing violence against women.  The APC WNSP has been active in the field of Gender and ICT since before the Fourth World Conference on Women (1995), and has been involved in almost all international ICT policy forums including the World Summit on the Information Society.

Ms. Ramilo has worked as a gender and ICT consultant for the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), United Nations Economic and Social Council for Asia and Pacific (UNESCAP), Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), the United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women (UNDAW) and the World Bank.  She has also been a speaker and resource person in international workshops and United Nations conferences. 

Brigid Inder – New Zealand (Executive Director)
Brigid Inder has more than 19 years experience as an activist for women’s human rights and gender equality. Since the early 1990’s Brigid has been involved in international advocacy at United Nations conferences and global negotiations including the Earth Summit, the International Conference on Population and Development and the Fourth World Conference on Women. She has worked in the Asia-Pacific region on these issues and the regional preparations for the World Conference Against Racism.  Brigid was Executive Director of the YWCA of Aotearoa-New Zealand, and Manager of HIV/AIDS Services and Programmes at the AIDS Council of New South Wales, the largest HIV centre in Australia. Brigid has extensive experience internationally in the area of sexual rights advocacy. She was Director of Community Legal Centres in NSW, founding co-convenor of the Australian National Human Rights Network and a Board member of the Women’s Rights Action Network of Australia.  Brigid currently serves on the Board of the Association of Women’s Rights in Development (AWID).

Jessica Babihuga Nkuuhe – Uganda (Secretary)
Jessica Babihuga Nkuuhe is a gender, human rights and peace activist.  She is the Associate Director of Isis-Women’s International Cross-Cultural Exchange (Isis-WICCE), an international women’s resource centre based in Kampala which runs annual institutes on women’s human rights, peace building, and documentation for women activists and leaders from situations of armed conflict. Isis-WICCE is part of the Uganda Women’s Network (UWONET), a coalition of NGOs advocating for policy change to promote the human rights of women and men in Uganda.

Jessica is Chairperson of the Human Rights Network (HURINET – Uganda), a human rights umbrella group that works towards fostering the recognition, respect, and defence of human rights, the rule of law, and democratic governance for the attainment of freedom, peace and sustainable development in Uganda.  She is also a Board Member of Jamii Ya Kupatanisha (Fellowship for Reconciliation), Uganda, and a member of the Advisory Committee of the African Women’s Development Fund based in Accra, Ghana.

Geetanjali Misra – India (Treasurer)
Geeta is the Executive Director of CREA (Creating Resources for Empowerment in Action), a not for profit organization that works internationally.  Based in New Delhi, India, CREA empowers women to articulate, demand and access their rights by enhancing women's leadership and focusing on issues of sexuality, reproductive health, violence against women, women's rights and social justice.  Before this, Geeta was Program Officer at the Ford Foundation, New Delhi for six years where she focused on reproductive health policy advocacy and women's empowerment, sexuality and HIV/AIDS prevention and the recognition of violence against women as a health and human rights issue.  Geeta has worked as Program Director at the Environmental Defense Fund and also at Engender Health, The World Bank, and Family Care International.  She is the co-founder of Sakhi for South Asian Women, a New York based organization committed to ending violence against women of South Asian origin. Geeta has Masters degrees in Economics and International Affairs.

Aigul Alymkulova - Kyrgyzstan (General Member)
Aigul Alymkulova is the Executive Director of the Women’s Support Centre in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.  Aigul trained as a medical doctor, has an International Masters in Business Administration and a Masters of Science in Policy Economics. She has been involved in sociological research projects in the area of reproductive health, HIV/AIDS and the participation of women and men in politics. Aigul managed the UNFPA project on community reproductive health services in northern Kyrgyzstan and was previously Director of the Trading Department for the Kyrgyzstan Stock Exchange.  She researched and co-produced the Poverty Profile Formulation Study: Kyrgzstan 2000 and was a member of the Kyrgyzstan NGO delegation presenting the Alternative Report on Women’s Status to the CEDAW Committee in 2004. Aigul has organised numerous training seminars; most notably, since 2002 she has been responsible for organising eight national Gender Schools for women’s NGOs, activists and the education sector.

Maria Solis Garcia – Guatemala (General Member)
María Solís Garcia is a women’s rights advocate and feminist law professor specializing in labour issues and gender. She is a founding member of La Cuerda, which works on building political alliances with other social movements, running feminist workshops, fighting racism and discrimination and conducting research and activism around the International Criminal Court (ICC).  Since 1997, La Cuerda has been producing the only regular feminist publication in Guatemala.  María has done extensive advocacy work in Guatemala on the ICC and on engendering this body. She was the only advocate from Guatemala to work with the Women´s Caucus for Gender Justice.  María has written on the implementation of CEDAW in Guatemala, sexual harassment, the ICC, gender, law and health and produced training materials for women on labour law, economic and social human rights, sexuality and analyzing the criminal justice system from a gender perspective.