Arzu Rana Deuba

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'''Arzu Rana Deuba''' (born 26 January 1962)<ref name="Profile of Dr. Arzu Rana Deuba">[http://arzuranadeuba.com/profile.php Profile of Dr. Arzu Rana Deuba ] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091016110706/http://arzuranadeuba.com/profile.php |date=16 October 2009 }}</ref> is a member of the Nepali Congress Party of Nepal<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.nepalicongress.org/|title=NepaliCongress.org- Nepali Congress Official website {{!}} Political party of Nepal|website=www.nepalicongress.org|access-date=2020-03-06}}</ref> since 1996 and elected as the Central Committee member of Nepali Congress Party of Nepal on December, 2021. She is the member of Nepali Congress Party convention and Central Leadership Voting Committee since 2000. She was a member of Constituent Assembly and Parliament of Nepal for ten years (2008-2017). She pursued issues such as women's rights, especially reproductive rights, equal citizenship rights, equal property rights, violence against women, and women's equitable and equal political representation at all levels while writing the [[constitution of Nepal]]. She is wife of "Prime Minister of Nepal Mr. Sher Bahadur Deuba".

She was a member of the Constitution Drafting Committee and served as Chair of the Women Parliamentarians Coordination Committee. Deuba is a gender activist and social worker and has established a number of women and children related NGOs in Nepal, including RUWDUC,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ruwducktm.org.np/|title=RUWDUC Kathmandu – "Unity For Women's Empowerment"|language=en-US|access-date=2020-03-06}}</ref> Saathi,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://saathi.org.np/|title=Saathi – Create violence free homes and society where women and children can live a life of dignity.|language=en-US|access-date=2020-03-06}}</ref> SMNF<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.safemotherhood.org.np/|title=Safe Motherhood Network Federation Nepal {{!}} A Network for Advocacy, Awareness and Social Mobilization|website=www.safemotherhood.org.np|access-date=2020-03-06}}</ref> and established SAMANTA, a research-based institute for social and gender equality. She served as an elected regional councilor for South and East Asia for [[IUCN]] and currently serves as the board of [[Ipas (organization)|Ipas]] and the [[Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development]] based in New Delhi.

Deuba served as Chair of the Gender and Biodiversity Task Force (GBTF) of the IUCN Council as well as a member of the steering committee of the Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy (CEESP) and co-chair of the Theme on Environment, Conflict, and Security (TECS). She also served on the Bureau of IUCN Council. She represented IUCN as the keynote speaker at the IUCN-PATA Asia Pacific Conference in 2009 and also as Keynote Speaker on the Himalayas at a Mountain Conference organized in Munich, Germany by ICIMOD and its partners in 2010. Deuba was re-elected as the IUCN Regional Councillor from South and East Asia in the IUCN World Conservation Congress (WCC).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.iucn.org/content/dr-arzu-rana-deuba-re-elected-iucn-regional-councillor|title=Dr. Arzu Rana-Deuba re-elected as IUCN Regional Councillor|date=2012-09-13|website=IUCN|language=en|access-date=2020-03-06}}</ref> She was invited as Speaker in diverse international forums including at the Human Rights Council in Geneva, March 2017.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/HRBodies/UPR/A_HRC_34_2_EN.docx|title=Report of the Human Rights Council on its thirty-fourth session|last=|first=|date=|website=|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-03-06}}</ref>

==Education==
Deuba graduated from St. Bedes College, [[Himachal Pradesh University]]. She obtained her master's degree from [[Panjab University, Chandigarh|Punjab University]]. She also obtained her Ph.D. in organizational Psychology in 1990 from [[Panjab University, Chandigarh|Punjab University]] [[India]].<ref>[http://www.nepalnews.com/archive/2008/oct/oct14/news10.php Arzu Deuba elected IUCN councillor ] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081121111001/http://www.nepalnews.com/archive/2008/oct/oct14/news10.php |date=21 November 2008 }}</ref>

==Political career==
Deuba has been a member of the Nepali Congress Party of Nepal since 1996.<ref name=":0"/> Since 2000, she has been a member of the Nepali Congress Party convention and Central Leadership Voting Committee. She was a member of the Constituent Assembly and Parliament of Nepal for ten years (2008-2017). She pursued issues such as women's rights, especially reproductive rights, equal citizenship rights, equal property rights, violence against women, women's equitable and equal political representation at all levels while writing the constitution of Nepal.

==Social works==
Deuba has established a number of women and children issues related non-government organizations (NGOs) in Nepal, which include- Saathi (1992) which works on elimination of violence against women; The Rural Women's Development and Unity Centre (1995) which works in areas with the lowest human development indicators; The Safe Motherhood Network Federation (1996) which works in the area of reproductive health and rights; and Samanata – Institute for Social & Gender Equality (1997) which is a research-based organization.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.onlinewomeninpolitics.org/nepal/nepaleads.htm|title=OnlineWomen: Nepal|website=www.onlinewomeninpolitics.org|access-date=2020-03-06}}</ref>

Deuba was elected as regional councilor of the [[International Union for Conservation of Nature|World Conservation Union]] (IUCN) during its fourth world congress held in Barcelona, [[Spain]] in October 2008. Deuba is the first candidate to be elected from Nepal in IUCN's highest decision-making body.<ref name="Profile of Dr. Arzu Rana Deuba"/> She served for two terms as an elected regional councilor for South & East Asia for IUCN (2008 – 2016). She currently serves on the board of IPAS, USA (2014 ongoing) and the Mahatma Gandhi Institute for Education for Peace and Sustainable Development, which is a UNESCO Type I institution based in New Delhi, India (2014 ongoing). She is also associated with the White Ribbon Alliance for safe motherhood. Deuba was a panelist on discussion on preventable maternal mortality and morbidity and human rights at the 34th session of the Human Rights Council (Geneva 2017).<ref name="Why are women still marching">{{cite web|title= Why are women still marching|url=http://graduateinstitute.ch/events/_/events/corporate/2017/why-are-women-still-marching|accessdate=16 May 2017|publisher=The Graduate Institute Geneva}}</ref>


==Family life==
She is married to current Prime Minister and President of Nepali Congress Party,<ref name=":0" /> [[Sher Bahadur Deuba]].

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[[Category:Himachal Pradesh University alumni]]
[[Category:People from Lalitpur District, Nepal]]
[[Category:Spouses of prime ministers of Nepal]]

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