Asmita Basu is Programmes Director at Amnesty India. She is a lawyer with experience of working on women’s rights and human rights law and policy as a researcher, consultant and senior management in the NGO/development sector. She served as Coordinator of the Lawyers Collective from 2002-2009. She has significant experience in monitoring and reviewing the implementation of laws and has been called upon as a policy expert to review legislative approaches in dealing with violence against women in Bangladesh, Laos, Myanmar, Tajikistan and Pakistan.’