page_title: Usha Ramanathan
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caption_attribution_description: English: Usha Ramanathan is an Indian human rights activist and lawyer.
context_page_description: Usha Ramanathan is an Indian human right activist. She is an alumnus of Madras University. She studied law at Madras university, the University of Nagpur and Delhi University.
  Access Now organisation gave her the 2018 'Human Rights Hero' award for tireless efforts to highlight the issues related to Aadhaar. She is research fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, teaches environmental law, labour law and consumer law at the Indian Law Institute and is a regular guest professor many universities around the world.
  She is a frequent adviser to non-governmental organisations and international organisations. She is for instance a member of Amnesty International's Advisory Panel on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and has been called upon by the World Health Organisation as an expert on mental health on various occasions.
  Ramanathan is also the South Asia Editor of the Law, Environment and Development Journal, a peer-reviewed academic journal jointly published by IELRC and SOAS.
  Her research interests include human rights, displacement, torts and environment. She has published extensively in India and abroad.
context_section_description: Usha Ramanathan is an Indian human right activist. She is an alumnus of Madras University. She studied law at Madras university, the University of Nagpur and Delhi University.
  Access Now organisation gave her the 2018 'Human Rights Hero' award for tireless efforts to highlight the issues related to Aadhaar. She is research fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, teaches environmental law, labour law and consumer law at the Indian Law Institute and is a regular guest professor many universities around the world. 
  She is a frequent adviser to non-governmental organisations and international organisations. She is for instance a member of Amnesty International's Advisory Panel on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and has been called upon by the World Health Organisation as an expert on mental health on various occasions. 
  Ramanathan is also the South Asia Editor of the Law, Environment and Development Journal (LEAD Journal), a peer-reviewed academic journal jointly published by IELRC and SOAS.  
  Her research interests include human rights, displacement, torts and environment. She has published extensively in India and abroad. In particular, she has devoted her attention to a number of specific issues such as the Bhopal gas disaster, the Narmada valley dams and slum eviction in Delhi.
  
  Her writings can be found in the Frontline, The Hindu, The Wire and the Indian Express, amongst other leading newspapers.
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