Aruna Roy has been at the forefront of a number of campaigns for the rights of the poor and the marginalised. These have included, most prominently, the Right to Information, the Right to Work (the NREGA), and the Right to Food. More recently, she has been involved with the campaign for universal, non-contributory pension for unorganised sector workers as a member of the Pension Parishad and the NCPRI for the passage and enactment of the Whistleblower Protection Law and Grievance Redress Act. She served as a member of the National Advisory Council (NAC) until 2006 when she resigned. She was also appointed the 2016 professor of practice in global governance at McGill University, in Montreal. In 2018, along with the MKSS collective, Roy published a book chronicling the history of the Right to Information movement in India titled The RTI Story: Power to the People. Honours and awards With the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan, Aruna Roy was awarded the Times Fellowships Award for 1991 for her work for rural workers rights to social justice and creative development. In 2000, she received the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership. In 2010 she received the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Award for Excellence in Public Administration, Academia and Management. In 2011, she was named as one of the hundred most influential people in the world by Time magazine. In September 2017 the Times of India listed Roy as one of the 11 Human Rights Activists Whose Life Mission Is To Provide Others with a Dignified Life. Selected works Academic Non-fiction Miscellaneous References Notes Citations Further reading Menon, Ritu (2002). Women Who Dared. National Book Trust, India. . External links The idea of India by Aruna Roy – Mint The Rediff Interview/ Aruna Roy – Rediff.com Indian women activists Activists from Tamil Nadu Freedom of information activists Indraprastha College for Women alumni Delhi University alumni Ramon Magsaysay Award winners 1946 births Living people People from Chennai Members of National Advisory Council, India Women in Tamil Nadu politics 20th-century Indian women Social workers 20th-century Indian educators Educators from Tamil Nadu Indian Administrative Service officers Women educators from Tamil Nadu Social workers from Tamil Nadu Communist Party of India politicians from Tamil Nadu 20th-century women educators Female politicians of the Communist Party of India