Iftikar Hussain Siddique
Iftikar is a community volunteer working on citizenship rights and addressing the impacts of climate change in the Brahmaputra basin. He is working on creating access to legal aid by conducting awareness and empowerment camps at the community level and by training other volunteers to increase access to legal aid for vulnerable people. Building capacities of community leadership to address displacement caused by climate change is another major area of his work. He is also directly involved in providing relief to those affected by floods and river erosion, which are common problems the entire Assam State faces.