Hana Shams Ahmed is the coordinator of the International CHT Commission (http://chtcommission.org/) and a freelance journalist. She worked as the Assistant Editor of FORUM, the monthly news magazine of THE DAILY STAR. Before that she worked as a Feature Writer of THE STAR magazine, the weekly magazine of The Daily Star from 2000-2008. Her investigative reports focus on gender, child, labour, migrant and minority rights. Her reports include a cover story on Bangladeshi migrant workers, citizenship legal limbo of camp-based Urdu-speaking minorities, sexual harassment at nation’s top universities, abuse of domestic workers, medical negligence at private hospitals, etc.
Hana is also a freelance writer for Women’s Feature Services, an international women’s news/features syndicate (www.wfsnews.org). Her articles have appeared on Himal (web) and altmuslim.com. She also does translation work for local NGOs. She is a member of Drishtipat.org, a global network of Bangladeshi human rights activists. Hana was selected as an ‘Asia 21 Young Leader’ delegate from Bangladesh by Asia Society, New York in 2008. She is a graduate of the University of Westminster, London, with a Post Graduate Diploma in International Journalism.
