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The Founding President of International Institute for Human Rights, Environment and Development (INHURED International) which enjoys Special Consultative Status, UN-ECOSOC, Dr. Siwakoti is in a high profile leadership position since the inception period of the Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network (APRRN), including the Durable Solutions Working Group. The Network is a rainbow coalition of more than 400 organizations and individuals working across the region in advancing the rights of refugees and other forced migrants.
Esteemed as International Advisor of Platform on Disaster Displacement (PDD) and Statelessness Network Asia Pacific (SNAP), Dr. Siwakoti, besides representing in various UN forums, has also been honored as a guest-lecturer on human rights, transitional justice, forced migration, refugee protection, internal displacement, SDGs, and freedom of elections at various universities in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Africa. Asa principal trainer and Senior International Observer at Asian Network for Free Elections (ANFREL), and Secretary General of National Election Observation Committee (NEOC), he has joined several election related exploratory and observation missions primarily in Asia and occasionally in Africa and North America.
Honored by the Swiss Bureau of Statistics under “Who is Who-2000” on “Refugee Protection in South Asia”, he has also been conferred several awards including Person of the Year-2008; Global Nonviolence Advocate-2010 along with National Peace Award-2010. Dr. Siwakoti has championed the cause of refugees and migrants in the region as a front-runner advocate and has been aninfluentialcivil society leader for the adoption of the twin Global Compacts for Refugees, and Migration by the UN General Assembly in 2018. His contribution to human rights movement transcends beyond geographic and political borders. He has partaken in struggle for freedom of expression and multi-party electoral democracy since early eighties and became a prisoner of principle for four years.
He has authored and edited several books, research reports, films and documentaries on refugees, electoral freedom, transitional justice, human rights, peace, disaster displacement, climate change, safer migration and counter-trafficking.