Riju Dhakal, is currently based in Kathmandu, Nepal and is a graduate of Public Health from the Central Department of Public Health, Institute of Medicine, Nepal. She has been actively engaging herself around public health issues and her passion especially lies in the area of adolescent and young people’s sexual and reproductive health and rights. She has been an active youth activist for the past four years in Nepal and has also represented the issues and young people in the regional and international platforms. She is passionate about the use of Comprehensive Sexuality Education as a tool to promote the rights of young people, gender equality and establish better health conditions for them and her experience on advocacy stems from her leadership at YUWA, a youth-led organisation in Nepal. She loves travelling, grooving, doodling and hiking.
