Rajat Khosla

Amnesty International

Rajat Khosla currently works as the policy coordinator on health with Amnesty International. He has worked on health and human right issues for more than twelve years. Formerly, he worked as an advocacy specialist with the Asia-Pacific office of the United Nations Millennium Campaign. He has also worked as a consultant with the United Nations Population Fund, Asia-Pacific Regional Office in Bangkok and with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. Previously he also worked as a senior research officer to the first UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health. He has also worked as an advocate in the Supreme Court of India on several public interest cases involving socioeconomic rights.

Looking for Human Rights at the Family Planning Summit

At the family planning summit in London, I waited to hear leaders of different countries recognise the centrality of women’s human rights, their sexual and reproductive rights. But disappointingly, although a few notable references were made to these issues by some leaders, women’s human rights were not appropriately addressed.