Ambiga Sreenevasan- Malaysian lawyer and chair of the Bersih 20 movement for free and fair elections

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 Ambiga Sreenevasan is a Malaysian lawyer known for her pursuit of judicial reform, religious tolerance, and women’s equality. In 2007, Sreenevasan was elected president of the Malaysian Bar Council. In this role, she has fought an uphill battle for gender equality and is also an advocate of freedom of religion. Sreenevasan received the 2009 U.S. Secretary of State’s International Women of Courage Award. She chaired the Bersih 2.0 rally, a civic movement devoted to free and fair elections in Malaysia that organized a rally of 20,000 people in Kuala Lumpur in July 2011. Sreenevasan earned an LLB from the University of Exeter and co-founded her own law firm, Sreenevasan, Advocates & Solicitors.

https://hrf.org/speakers/ambiga-sreenevasan/

In addition to heading the Bersih 2.0 movement for clean and fair elections, Sreenevasan is also an advocate for gender equality in Malaysia. She successfully fought to amend the Malaysian Constitution to ensure that women’s testimony carried equal weight to that of men in courts.

This outspoken individual is also a recipient of France’s Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur award.

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