Mohammad Rizwan Parwez

Over the past 22 years, Rizwan Parwez has engaged with civil society organizations, contributing to address pre-and-post birth discrimination against women and girls, skewed sex ratios at birth, advocating for women’s access to safe and legal abortions, promoting non-traditional livelihoods for women and girls and enhancing their values. He has served as a member of the National Inspection and Monitoring Committee, PCPNDT under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India. Currently he is associated as National Coordinator with Girls Count, a coalition of over 200 CSOs aimed at addressing son preference and gender-biased sex selection in India.