[Reader-list] INTERNATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR JUSTICE On Gujarat - Public Meeting

[Laxmi Murthy]

PUBLIC MEETING

INTERNATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR JUSTICE

Redressing Violence against Women

Committed by State and Non-state Actors in Gujarat, 2002

At 3.00 PM

Friday, 20 December 2002

Rajendra Bhavan, ITO

210 Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Marg New Delhi

(Opp Gandhi Peace Foundation)

Phone: 23231033

The International Initiative for Justice committee is presenting its findings from its four-day visit to Gujarat. The committee visited Baroda, Ahmedabad and Panchmahals-Dahod. 

The committee�s mandate included investigations into the extent, nature, causes and consequences of the violence � physical as well as sexual � suffered by women between 27 February and the end of March, 2002, in Gujarat, India. They will also address the role of State authorities, including that of the ruling party and the police, and the role of various organisations, particularly fundamentalist religious organisations, with respect to the above events.

 

The panelists are:

Rhonda Copelon (Prof. of Law, City University of New School of Law & Director International Human Rights Clinic) 

Nira Yuval-Davis (Prof. of Gender and Ethnic Studies, University of East London)

Sunila Abeysekara (Director, Inform Sri Lanka)

Anissa Helie (Co-ordinator Women Living under Muslim Law, UK), 

Vahida Nainar (Development Director, Women�s Caucus for Gender Justice, India)

Meera Vellayudan (Historian, Institute for Environmental and Social Concerns, Kutch)

Farah Naqvi (Independent writer and women�s rights activist, New Delhi)

Uma Chakravoarty (Historian, Delhi University and member PUDR)

Gabriela Mischowski (Historian and co-founder Medico-Mondiale, Germany).

Please do come and attend this meeting and spread the word among as many individuals/ organisations as possible.

Citizen�s Initiative (Ahmedabad), People�s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), Shanti Abhiyan (Vadodara), Communalism Combat (Mumbai), Lawyers Collective (Mumbai), Awaaz-E-Niswaan (Mumbai), Forum Against Oppression of Women (FAOW, Mumbai), Saheli (Delhi), Jagori (Delhi), Sama (Delhi), Nirantar (Delhi), Organised Lesbian Alliance for Visibility and Action (OLAVA), Pune), and other women�s organisations in India

 



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