Voices - Conversations On Business And Human Rights From Around The World

Sadaf Saaz Siddiqi is a director at Sidko Limited, a Bangladeshi garment exporter. She is also one of Bangladesh's leading poets in English. Her recent publication, Sari Reams, offers a poignant glimpse of Bangladesh's life, covering a range of topics.

Ikal Angelei is the Director of Friends of Lake Turkana, a civil society group in Northern Kenya, in an area where companies are prospecting for oil. Oil exploration in the region will have major implications for the communities along the project sites.

Usha Ramanathan lives in New Delhi, India, where she works on the jurisprudence of law, poverty and rights.

Javier Moro is co-author of "Five Past Midnight in Bhopal: The Epic Story of the World's Deadliest Industrial Disaster".

The Bangladeshi activist Nazma Akter started working at a garment factory in 1984 at the age of 11. Three years later, she protested against the conditions garment workers faced.

Dr V Suresh is a human rights lawyer who is the national general secretary of the People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), one of India's major human rights organisations.

Ma Thida is a writer, human rights activist, physician, and a former political prisoner in Myanmar. She has received numerous international human rights awards and Amnesty International adopted her as a prisoner of conscience.

Sara Hossain is a leading human rights lawyer in Bangladesh. She is a barrister practising in the Supreme Court of Bangladesh on constitutional, public interest, and family matters.

Daw Khine Khine Nwe is the secretary of the Myanmar Garment Manufacturers Association and the chief executive of Best Co., a garment manufacturing company in Myanmar.