Mallika Dutt

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Mallika Dutt is currently the Executive Director of Breakthrough (human rights): building human rights culture,an international human rights organization that uses media and popular culture to address social justice issues. She launched Breakthrough in 2000 with Mann ke Manjeere: an album of women's dreams which won the 2001 National Screen Award in India for best music video. Breakthrough operates in India and the United States.

1 Background
2 Career
3 Awards
4 External links

[edit] Background

Dutt was born in Kolkata on March 29, 1962 and grew up in Kolkata and Mirzapur, India. She received her B.A. in 1983 from Mount Holyoke College, an M.A. in International Affairs from Columbia University in 1986 and J.D. from the New York University School of Law in 1989. She is married to Daniel Sumit Ghosal, a banker of Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi.

[edit] Career

Dutt co-founded Sakhi for South Asian Women, an organization that addresses domestic violence in New York City in 1989 [1]. She served as the Program Officer for Human Rights in the Ford Foundation's New Delhi office from 1996 to 2000. Prior to that she was the Associate Director of the Center for Women's Global Leadership at Rutgers University. She convened the first US meeting to create links between human rights between US groups and global groups. As part of this meeting, she authored "With Liberty and Justice for All: Women's Human Rights in the United States." Dutt also co-authored the manual, "Local Action Global Change: Learning about the human rights of women and girls" with Julie Mertus and Nancy Flowers.

Dutt has also served as Director of the Norman Foundation and as an associate at NY law firm, Debevoise & Plimpton.

[edit] Awards

She received the Spirit of Asian America Award from the Asian American Federation of New York in 2003 and the Phoenix Service Award from the New York Asian Women's Center in 2002. She also received the National Citizen's Award for Contribution to Women and Development in India in 2001.