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'''Angela Kuga Thas''' "a [[Malaysia]]n with a Bachelor in Economics and a postgraduate Diploma in Education, advocates for women's empowerment and non-discrimination. Angela draws her knowledge and experience from her networking and previous work with IWRAW ([[International Women's Rights Action Watch]]) Asia Pacific on the CEDAW and with other organizations on women's sexual and reproductive health, and provision of microcredit. Angela is a founding trustee of [[Knowledge and Rights with Young people through Safer Spaces]] (KRYSS). Working within a gender equality and human rights framework, KRYSS enables young people in to deal with identity-based discrimination and creative arts in its training and activities. She monitors the local media on sexual discrimination with a small group of fellow Malaysians, and her qualitative research (2004) is the first to focus on lesbianism in Malaysia. As a member of the [[Association for Progressive Communications]] Women's Networking Support Program, Angela has been particularly active in gender and ICT policy advocacy and has fostered synergistic collaborations through the inaugural Gender and ICT Awards with the [[Global Knowledge Partnership]] (GKP), the Malaysian replication of the Women's Electronic Network Training, and the development of the ICT and gender e-primer for the Asian Pacific Development Information Program. Angela also conceptualized and manages the Seed Grant and Small Innovative Projects Fund of the GKP and is advisor to its [[Youth Social Entrepreneurship Initiative]] fund. Angela is on the Advisory Council of the [[Global Fund for Women]] and is a member of the International Advisory Committee for [[BRIDGE]] at the [[Institute of Development Studies]] in the United Kingdom."  [http://www.awid.org/go.php?pg=board]

*Former director, [[Association of Women's Rights in Development]]
*Director, [[International Women's Health Coalition]]

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*"[http://www.awid.org/go.php?pg=board Biography]", Accessed January 2007. 

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