Courts of Women : VIMOCHANA Bangalore
July 29, 2009
Daughters of Fire : The Indian Court of Women on Dowry and Related Forms of Violence Against Women is organised by Vimochana and Asian Women’s Human Rights Council in partnership with JAGORI, other women’s groups and civil societies
Date: July 27-29, 2009, Bangalore, India
July 27: Pre Court Events : Roundtable Discussions; Women in Black
July 28: Daughters of Fire : India Court of Women on Dowry and
Related Forms of Violence against Women
July 29: Follow Up: Community Conversations, Dialogue on Policies
and Legal Reform
Venue: Christ College Auditorium, Hosur Road, Bangalore
This court is part of the process of the Courts of Women, a global movement that seeks to relook at rights and other notions of justice from the lives and the visions of women particularly from the Global South. Initiated by the Asian Womens Human Rights Council in 1991 in the Asia Pacific region the Courts of Women have subsequently moved through El Taller International into different regions of the world i.e. the Arab world, the Mediterranean, Africa, Central and South America. With violence against women at its centre, 35 Courts of Women have been held on diverse issues specific to the regions they have held in : from the violence of poverty, globalisation and development, the violence of cultures, caste and racism to the violence of military sexual slavery, nuclearisation and of all wars.
The unique feminist methodology evolved by the Courts of Women revolves around weaving together the personal, the political, the affective and the aesthetic. It seeks to invite the audience to relook at these issues not as experts but as witnesses to the violence of our times. The Courts of Women are public hearings. They are sacred spaces in which we have individual testimonies of survival and resistance that guide us in our collective search for new notions of justice; justice that is drawn from alternative paradigms of knowledge that challenge the one scientific, neutral, objective, universal knowing as the only way to know.
Click here to view the DOWRY INFOPACK “MARCHING TOGETHER : Resisting Dowry in India”.
Media coverage of the event
Click here to view “photo report on the Indian Women’s Court on Dowry and Related Forms of Violence Against Women “Daughters of Fire” .
Click here to view “Women’s Court Kicks Off With Discussion on Dowry” .
Click here to view “Voice of Women and Families in India (VOW India)” .
Click here to view “Bangalore ‘dowry court’ hears harrowing stories, demands stringent law” .
Click here to view “Dowry cases have gone up”.
Click here to view “Women break their silence over dowry”.
Click here to view the “Struggle against oppression, battle for justice”.
Click here to view the “A second gaze”.
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Hum Sabla : Muslim Women’s Rights
July 13, 2009
HUM SABLA
WOMAN EMPOWERED
A FEMINIST MAGAZINE IN HINDI
WOMAN EMPOWERED
A FEMINIST MAGAZINE IN HINDI
“Hum Sabla is the newsletter of our ongoing campaign to stop violence against women and girls. Hum Sabla is the successor to Sabla, our popular newsletter for neo literate women, produced under a grant from the Department of Education, Government of India and recognised as one of the most innovative productions of its kind.
Hum Sabla is designed to meet the expanding information needs of grassroots women’s groups in Hindi-speaking areas, and is a major vehicle for advocacy on women’s rights.”
Click here to view the latest issue of Hum Sabla which is on “Muslim Women’s Rights”.
You can also contact us at distribution@jagori.org for hard copies of this issue.
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