After months of preparation, EKTA and SANGAT's Nov. 28th event was a phenomenal success. Nearly every seat in the Tamil Nadu Chamber of Commerce auditorium was filled with supporters, college students, press, team members, volunteers, and honorees, and hundreds of attendees signed a pledge to join the One Billion Rising campaign on February 14, 2012. The event's main speakers -- Dr. V. Vasanthi Devi (former Chairperson of Tamil Nadu State Commission for Women), Mr. Thiru V. Balakrishnan (IPS Superintendent of Police, Madurai), and Dr. C. Ramasubramanian (State Nodal Officer, Mental Health Programme, Tamil Nadu) -- gave powerful speeches detailing their experiences and observations of the reality of violence against women in India and Tamil Nadu. Caste, economic, and educational variables all play a role in such violence, and efforts to seek redressal have varying levels of success, if redressal is even pursued.
The speeches, while sobering, served as strong reminders of the importance of campaigns such as One Billion Rising or the 16 Days Campaign, which strive to eliminate violence against women through combined individual, regional, and global efforts. Citing the fact that an estimated one in three women -- or one billion women -- will be subjected to violence at some point in their lives, Ms. Bimla Chandrasekar, Director of EKTA, officially announced the launch of the One Billion Rising campaign. In celebration of the launch, the ASMITA Resource Centre for Women, Hyderabad, put on a beautiful and moving performance of "Ahalya," which captivated the audience with vibrant costumes, graceful and powerful movements, and a feminist moral.
The event received some wonderful press coverage; click on the link below to read more!
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/violence-against-women-is-deeprooted/article4145454.ece
The speeches, while sobering, served as strong reminders of the importance of campaigns such as One Billion Rising or the 16 Days Campaign, which strive to eliminate violence against women through combined individual, regional, and global efforts. Citing the fact that an estimated one in three women -- or one billion women -- will be subjected to violence at some point in their lives, Ms. Bimla Chandrasekar, Director of EKTA, officially announced the launch of the One Billion Rising campaign. In celebration of the launch, the ASMITA Resource Centre for Women, Hyderabad, put on a beautiful and moving performance of "Ahalya," which captivated the audience with vibrant costumes, graceful and powerful movements, and a feminist moral.
The event received some wonderful press coverage; click on the link below to read more!
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/violence-against-women-is-deeprooted/article4145454.ece
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