Mr. Gauri Pradhan is an eminent human rights defender and social activist in Nepal and the outside world. He has been in this field for more than 30 years. He is a former Member of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Nepal. Mr. Pradhan was the Coordinator of the International Conference on NHRIs Collaboration on the Rights of Migrant Workers which was organized by NHRC Nepal in 2012. He is associated with several national, regional and international civil society organizations (CSO) on human rights, peace and social justice. He has been actively engaged in the advocacy; alliance building and monitoring of the implementation of the Istanbul Programme of Action (IPoA) and other internationally agreed development goals (IADGs) including SDGs for LDCs. More globally, he was also nominated to and acted as an Adviser to the UN-NGO Committee on Violence against Children in 2006. As a member of the Experts team he is one of the signatories of Abidjan Guidelines on Right to Education, 2019.