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Recently, women’s rights activist Ela Bhatt passed away.
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Ela Bhatt
- Founded Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA), a trade union representing self-employed female textile workers in India.
- Cofounder of Women’s World Banking (WWB) in 1979, a global network of microfinance organizations that assist poor women.
- In 2007 she joined the Elders, a group of world leaders that was founded by Nelson Mandela to promote human rights and peace.
