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Lemona Chanda is a Canadian-Bangladeshi development activist. https://ourcause.ca/meet-the-team/ref>

She has been involved in advocating the rights of religious minority women in Bangladesh who lack property and inheritance rights due to the existence of archaic laws. She advocates to reform Hindu Inheritance law related to women's rights. For her work, she has been selected as the UN Champion for Change. https://www.empowerwomen.org/en/community/people/9070d679-2cc7-452c-9275-34f9b7cecb3f/Lemona-Chanda/ref>

In 2017, she launched a not-for-profit, OurCause based in Toronto, Canada working to promote inclusive grassroots level campaigning andwork towards sustainable development and dissemination of programs and services to improve the lives of people living in poverty and in rural areas. https://ourcause.ca/ref>

She has been a featured Pulse Changemaker and has been named as the EMpower Ethnic Minority Future Leader in the UK. https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/yahoo-finance-empower-top-100-ethnic-minority-future-leaders-2020-230109374.html/ref>