Some of our workshop & training reports and compilations are given below. Click on them for a detailed reading.
Gender, Peace and Development: SANGAT 2002 Report
This workshop was organised with the aim of bringing together women and men from South Asia, engaged in development and capacity building work (with) for policy makers, planners, trainers, NGO activists, government servants, students, youth etc. and those engaged in human rights, peace and feminist work for a frank and open dialogue. Read full text of report… click here.
What Happened in Gujarat?
State sponsored killings of Muslims in a part of the state of Gujarat in western India took place in late February 2002 which continued for the first few days in March. The genocide was carried out in three phases: killings and mass rapes of minority women, followed by systematic looting and burning of the houses and properties of Muslims in the second phase continuing till about the 10th of March. The third phase was of the “combing operations” carried out by the police in which the minority community particularly women have been humiliated by police brutality. Read more in our report…click here.
Surviving Crisis: SANGAT 2001 Report
SANGAT and JAGORI from Delhi and the Nepal Coordination Committee consisting of 12 NGOs from Nepal, organised a South Asian Conference on "Surviving Crises, Rebuilding Resistance: Women´s Struggles for Sustainable Development in South Asia.? This Conference was held in Kathmandu from September 11-14, 2001. Read full text of report…click here.
Trafficking - A Demand Led Problem?
Read full text of the multi country pilot study in two parts…click here for part 1,
click here for part 2.
Survey of Community Perceptions and Research Findings on Women and Mental Health
The aim of undertaking an indicative survey was to gain some knowledge of community perceptions about women and emotional-mental disturbance, it is not meant to be exhaustive or representative of the Indian population. The purpose of the indicative survey and inclusion of data from secondary sources, is to provide a background for the reading of the profiles. In this report we have mainly used the respondents words to provide a clearer idea of their language and perceptions and to avoid misinterpretations on our part. Read more…click here.
Migration, Trafficking and Sites of Work
We have been working on the issues of trafficking, migration and rights of sex workers for over six years. In our work so far, we have consistently come across serious problems in the availability and reliability of data on the above issues, which render intervention either impossible or ineffective, and uninformed. In an effort to begin addressing this gap, JAGORI, with the support of UNIFEM, initiated an action-research project on the issue which was carried over two years, 2002-2003. Read full text of the report…click here.
Trafficking in South Asia
In the last three years, women´s groups in the South Asian region have been very concerned about the phenomenal increase in the trafficking of women and children, and have been lobbyng with their respective governments to include this as an important issue on the agenda for SAARC deliberation. In 1996 women´s groups from the region met the Home Ministers of the SAARC nations in Delhi demanding the inclusion of the issue in the next SAARC Summit in Male. Lobbying continued in Male and they demanded that a SAARC Convention on Trafficking be drafted to address the issue at a coordinated and wider consolidated level…In pursuit of a clear/er understanding of concepts and strategies to take the initiatives further, 30 women {and one man} from South Asian countries met in Anandgram, New Delhi to grapple with the issue of trafficking of women and children in South Asia, and other critical issues around it… Read the full report…click here.
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