Shampa Goswami

Shampa Goswami is a woman human rights defender and the Executive Director of PRERONA based in Satkhira district, Bangladesh. PRERONA works on women's rights, the rights of marginalised communities, human rights, climate change, livelihoods, education and disaster management in coastal Satkhira.

She has faced threats, harassment and pressure because of her rights-based work since at least 2012, including after supporting a woman survivor of gang rape to file a complaint against the perpetrators. She was subsequently suspended from her post as a schoolteacher in Kaliganj, Satkhira. The forms of pressure have changed over time, but the harassment has repeatedly returned.