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'''[[Order of the British Empire|Dame]] Indira Patel''' (born 27 March 1946)<ref>[https://ift.tt/3q3LDLY Biodata], ukwhoswho.com; accessed 8 February 2021.</ref> is a Kenya-born British activist and businesswoman.
Born and educated in Kenya, Patel's father died when she was only nine years old, she was raised by her mother. Patel first worked as a schoolteacher in East Africa before fleeing the genocidal regime of [[Idi Amin]] in 1975 with her husband, Bhanu, a structural engineer and real estate investor, and their two sons.
In the UK, Patel worked with her husband in his real estate dealings. She later became an activist who worked to establish Asian Women’s Voluntary Organisations and helped institute provisions for vegetarian meals and translator services in hospitals, as well as producing educational videos on such women’s health issues as breast cancer, hysterectomies, and menopause.<ref name="biodata">[https://ift.tt/2MDBDL3 Biography of Dame Indira Patel], ncwgb.org; accessed 4 February 2021.</ref>
She spoke worldwide at major women’s conferences around the world and worked with the [[United Nations]] in Geneva speaking on harmful practices within certain cultures and traditions. She was then invited to work with the UN in New York. Between 1996-2004, she served as a Commissioner of the Women’s National Commission (WNC)'s advisory body to the UK government. She chaired and led the WNC delegation to the World Conference on Racism in South Africa.<ref name="biodata"/> She contributed to the recommendations in The Beijing Platform for Action, Implementation of the UN Security Council resolution 1325 and Resolution on crimes committed in the name of Honour, signed off by 192 countries.<ref>[https://ift.tt/3q743LY "Goa Chamber’s Women’s Wing to showcase Goan Women Achievers"], goachronicle.com; accessed 4 February 2021.</ref>
Dame Indira Patel and her family own property in [[Bambolim]], [[North Goa]], [[India]].<ref>[https://ift.tt/36X2mcd "Dynamic, Dignified & Determined"], vivagoamagazine.com; accessed 18 October 2019.</ref><ref>[https://ift.tt/3a1ZDAn Bhanu Patel lawsuit], indiankanoon.org; accessed 4 February 2021.</ref>
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[[Category:1946 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:British people of Indian descent]]
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[[Category:British women activists]]
[[Category:British women's rights activists]]
[[Category:Kenyan emigrants to the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Kenyan people of Indian descent]]
[[Category:British people of Indian descent]]
[[Category:Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire]]
Born and educated in Kenya, Patel's father died when she was only nine years old, she was raised by her mother. Patel first worked as a schoolteacher in East Africa before fleeing the genocidal regime of [[Idi Amin]] in 1975 with her husband, Bhanu, a structural engineer and real estate investor, and their two sons.
In the UK, Patel worked with her husband in his real estate dealings. She later became an activist who worked to establish Asian Women’s Voluntary Organisations and helped institute provisions for vegetarian meals and translator services in hospitals, as well as producing educational videos on such women’s health issues as breast cancer, hysterectomies, and menopause.<ref name="biodata">[https://ift.tt/2MDBDL3 Biography of Dame Indira Patel], ncwgb.org; accessed 4 February 2021.</ref>
She spoke worldwide at major women’s conferences around the world and worked with the [[United Nations]] in Geneva speaking on harmful practices within certain cultures and traditions. She was then invited to work with the UN in New York. Between 1996-2004, she served as a Commissioner of the Women’s National Commission (WNC)'s advisory body to the UK government. She chaired and led the WNC delegation to the World Conference on Racism in South Africa.<ref name="biodata"/> She contributed to the recommendations in The Beijing Platform for Action, Implementation of the UN Security Council resolution 1325 and Resolution on crimes committed in the name of Honour, signed off by 192 countries.<ref>[https://ift.tt/3q743LY "Goa Chamber’s Women’s Wing to showcase Goan Women Achievers"], goachronicle.com; accessed 4 February 2021.</ref>
Dame Indira Patel and her family own property in [[Bambolim]], [[North Goa]], [[India]].<ref>[https://ift.tt/36X2mcd "Dynamic, Dignified & Determined"], vivagoamagazine.com; accessed 18 October 2019.</ref><ref>[https://ift.tt/3a1ZDAn Bhanu Patel lawsuit], indiankanoon.org; accessed 4 February 2021.</ref>
==References==
<references />
[[Category:1946 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:British people of Indian descent]]
[[Category:British activists]]
[[Category:British women activists]]
[[Category:British women's rights activists]]
[[Category:Kenyan emigrants to the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Kenyan people of Indian descent]]
[[Category:British people of Indian descent]]
[[Category:Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire]]
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