Enakshi Ganguly Thukral

Enakshi Ganguly Thukral, is a development researcher and a child rights activist. She is a founding member and Co- Director of HAQ: Centre for Child Rights.

For the last 25 years, she has been involved in Research, Advocacy and Training on wide-ranging socio-legal issues such as development-induced displacement and issues concerning women and children, including women in the unorganized sector. Her areas of research include legal rights and reproductive health of women, child labour, laws and policies governing children, education and violence.

Since co-founding HAQ in 1998 she has been working in a focused manner for the recognition, promotion and protection of children's rights. This includes the areas of children and governance and child protection, which include issues such as child trafficking and violence, abuse and exploitation,  juvenile justice and right to housing and shelter amongst other things.

She has conducted numerous trainings with activists, teachers, police and children too, and participated in national and international forums on gender justice and child rights.

She is engaged in advocacy for assessing and reform of laws and policies concerning children, the more recent ones being the XIth Plan, the National Commission for Children, the National Plan of Action for Children, 2005.

She has published several books, legal manuals, papers and articles. She has been awarded the Ashoka Fellowship in recognition of HAQ’s work on children and profiled in a book entitled WOMANKIND: Faces of Change Around the World by Donna Nebenzahl (text) and Nance Ackerman (photographs) (Raincoast Books, Vancouver).

Enakshi is married and lives with her husband in New Delhi, India. They have two children.