2. => Journalist and Activist : seeking
justice on Muslim minority, Dalit
rights, gender issues, women’s
education, and victims & survivors of
sexual violence in communal conflict .
=>Founders of Nirantar (NGO:gender
& education) and Khabar Lahariya
( rural women’s awarded
newspaper )
=>Board of Oxfam India and of PAHAL
=>Member of Planning Commission
Steering Committee (Women, Child
and Empowerment of Minorities)
Farah Naqvi =>MA. in Social Anthropology and
3. The battle against forgetting
The Hindu, February 28,2012
Keywords:
- 2002 Godhra Train Carnage
- Post-Godhra riots
- Shah-e-Alam Relief Camp of Ahmedabad
- Emergent state's role in the violence
- Calling for Federal Intervention
4. Shah-e-Alam Relief Camp, Ahmedabad
mutilated women
“Balatkar ka matlab jab
aurat ko nanga karte hain scarred by this macabre,
aur phir use jala dete hain” twisted image of rape
"women were stripped, raped Butchered got away
and burnt.” State colluded in the
massacre of its own citizens
Survivors relegated to the
margins of Gujarat's towns
Victims were life sentenced
5. Remain Wound Challenges
-Nobody wants to remind -Victims are calling us to
this violent “restore equality of the law”
-The court narrative is still -We have to fill the “lacunae”
“unfolding”
-We have to ensure criminal
-State fails to give “justice culpability for those in
and command.
protect rights of minority”
-To caught the murders with
-Justice “eludes” the victim “the knives in their hands”
of Gujarat
-But, now we still give up :
-We cannot “legislate the hope of better India
to ensure justice”
6. A loops of one’s
own - Toilets appear trivial and
become low down list of
The Hindu, October,2012
stated development
priorities.
-To clean up our streets and
road sites = to remove the
slum dwellings=to remove
TOILET = ugly, funny, dirty, the eyesore.
joke ?
-Never thought that to
provide equality
-We use private toilet, many
people use "open
defecation"=that is open air
toilet
8. ASSAM VISIT
-There 12,000 people are
crowded in tents
-Everyone defecate at the
same place as draw water
for cooking
-Water kept for bathing at
the same place as they
defecate
- Women needed toilet
desperately, nobody will Out of sanitation issue, TOILET is
considered for health, privacy,
know when use it, to “hold
dignity and gender rights issue.
on the dignity”
10. Education for Minority Woman
1. Broadly Education
Right to Education Adult s, (never go school)
Minority,
Act Schooling aged included, underscored, in
Muslim,
6-14 Act of Woman’s Right
Dalit, Tribal
Education
2. Democratic New Media
Ability to tell their
Democratic Equal Opportunity own stories&images
Media to access “New” =
= = Available forms of
Access of New media of any new media
Democratic time, where, (N.paper,books,
Power contents journal&ICT)
11. A weekly newspaper run by a group of women from
various sections of the society, UP. Objective is to
reach out to villages and provide them with
12. 3. Leadership Training Model
Gender
Improve Empowerment
livelihood skills Needs
given by Politics,
Vocational Legal,
training Literacy,
Justice
Interacting w/t
Civic Authorities,
Learn the best
School System,
practice
Local
across country
Government & & abroad
Police
14. Anti-Discrimination Legislation
Public Schools,
Outcomes of
Media or and
Dignify and Expanded mind
Educational
Empower Sense and Expanded
Institutions
of Dignity job
(Formal & Non-
opportunities
formal)
