[Reader-list] Fwd: [DRUMnewz] Radio today: HRW on Gujarat / Trafficking / Feminist publishing in India

[zehra rizvi]

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>>HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: Report on the Gujarat Massacres
>>TRAFFICKING IN WOMEN: A Growing Grassroots Opposition
>>KALI FOR WOMEN PRESS: Activist Feminist Publishing
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>>1: HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH has just published its report on the recent 
>>religious
>>violence in Gujarat, "We Have No Orders To Save You": State Participation
>>and Complicity in the Communal Violence in Gujarat." We will start with a
>>discussion with the author of that report:
>>SMITA NARULA: Senior researcher with the Asia Division of Human Rights
>>Watch, in charge of South Asia.
>>Link to the HRW report:
>>http://hrw.org/reports/2002/india/
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>>2: The problem if trafficking in women has grown, internationally, to the
>>point where, in money terms, it rivals the trafficking in illegal drugs 
>>and
>>in illegal arms. But at the same time, there is a growing movement of
>>opposition, both at the grassroots and from governments. We talk about 
>>this
>>with:
>>RUCHIRA GUPTA: Journalist, founder & president of Apne Aap, a grassroots
>>group for womens rights and the eradication of trafficking in women
>>PAMELA SHIFMAN: Lawyer, former associate director of Equality Now and a
>>board member of Apne Aap.
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>>3: Started in a garage in New Delhi in 1984, KALI FOR WOMEN PRESS has led
>>the way for more than 15 years as a politically involved activist, 
>>feminist
>>publishing house, a model not only in India but for activist publishing 
>>all
>>over the world. We talk to:
>>RITU MENON: one of the 2 co-founders of this press.
>>Link to Kali for Women press:
>>http://www.spinifexpress.com.au/fasiapub/india/kali.htm
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>>In her capacity as a senior researcher for the Asia Division of Human
>>Rights Watch, SMITA NARULA oversees HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH'S South Asia
>>program, is the author of "We Have No Orders To Save You": State
>>Participation and Complicity in the Communal Violence in Gujarat.  The
>>75-page report documents state and police participation in anti-Muslim
>>violence in Gujarat in which 2,000 people have been killed since February
>>27, 2002.  Smita is also author of Broken People: Caste Violence Against
>>India's "Untouchables," a Human Rights Watch report on caste-based 
>>violence
>>and discrimination that affects at least 160 million "untouchables"
>>(Dalits) in India. Smita works closely with India's National Campaign on
>>Dalit Human Rights and in March 2000 formed the International Dalit
>>Solidarity Network with other human rights organizations, donor agencies,
>>and development groups.
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>>RUCHIRA GUPTA, founder & president on Apne Aap, an organization dedicated
>>to women's rights & the eradication of trafficking. Ruchira worked inside
>>the UN for 5 years advising governments on the issues of trafficking. She
>>made the Emmy-Award winning film: The Selling of Innocents about the
>>trafficking between Nepal & India.
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>>PAMELA SHIFMAN: Board member of Apne Aap International, is a lawyer, &
>>formerly associate director of Equality Now, an international human rights
>>organization working for the rights of women & girls throughout the world.
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