Profiles

Corinne Kumar
Secretary General El Taller International 2 Rue El Ghazali Menzah V, 1004 Tunis, Tunisia Phone: (216) 71 752457 Fax: (216) 71 751570 Email: eltaller@gnet.tn Web: www.eltaller.org Nationality: Tunisia Profession: Activist Languages Spoken: Arabic, English, French Area(s) of Expertise: Advocacy, Gender Violence, Women's Human Rights Country/Region of Expertise: Tunisia, North Africa

Corinne Kumar is Secretary General of El Taller International, an international NGO committed to international women’s human rights, sustainable development, and both North-South and South-South exchange and dialogue across diverse cultures and civilizations. She was formerly Director of the Centre for Development Studies (CIEDS Collective) in India. She is a founding member of the Asian Women’s Human Rights Council (AWHRC) and of Vimochana, an NGO in Bangalore, India working on issues such as domestic violence, dowry-related deaths, and workplace sexual harassment. A philosopher, poet, human rights theoretician and activist, she is editor of two human rights journals, Sangarsh and The Quilt, and has written and spoken extensively on refugees, violence against women, militarization, and the dominant human rights discourse, critiquing it from a gender and Global South perspective.