yes! i fully agree with you. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Taraprakash" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 10:01 PM Subject: Re: [AI] A Burning Issue
> So why don't you initiate the discussion? it is a burning issue, agreed. > But > what makes you think that there are not enough laws to prevent such a > despicable thing? > There are several instances to prove that organizations supposedly working > for the disabled, exploit disability and disabled to maximum extent. It > requires courage to say and do such stuff. It will make in to a good > study, > should you decide pursuing it. But be prepared for isolation in this > field. > Ultimately it remains the matter of academic interest, nothing more. Is > there any organization which claims to be a voice of the disabled and has > more than 50 % of the disabled employees? How many organizations are there > which can claim they have a written rule that 3 % of the seats will be > reserved for the disabled according to our constitution? > I am not trying to sidetrack the issue you raised but expecting something > significant from NGO's in this regards is expecting a little too much. > They > themselves don't practise what they preach. > Unless things have drastically changed recently, with the exception of > NAB, > none of the major organizations employ disabled readily. > You can start collecting data and publish an interesting study. Rather > than > always criticizing media, there is nothing wrong in it, and criticizing > government, another well -deserved criticism, we must sometime self > introspect. Is our house really in order? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "smriti singh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 9:22 PM > Subject: [AI] A Burning Issue > > >> Hello Accessindia, >> >> Some of you must have come across a recent NDTV news >> report, which tells us about a case of a >> mentally-challenged girl being sexually harassed in >> some institution for the mentally-challenged women in >> Gaziabad. The issue is, and must be, a matter of great >> concern for each one of us. Like it or not, several >> visually challenged girls also are being victimised of >> such malpractices in several institutions. In Delhi, >> for instance, we often hear about such cases in many >> hostels for college-going visually challenged girls in >> muffled voices. >> >> In this list, we have many people who are working for >> NGOs and various other kinds of such activities. >> Therefore, I find this list a very significant >> plateform for the discussion of issues of an extreme >> concern like this. I strongly feell, and would like to >> assert, that there must be some law or some kind of >> code of conduct to prevents such instances of the >> visually challenged women's sexual harassments. >> >> Therefore, I would like to have a discussion on this >> matter in the list. >> >> Regards, >> >> Smriti. >> >> Smriti Singh >> Programme: M. Phil (English Literature) >> Room # 03 >> Sabarmati Hostel >> Jawaharlal Nehru University >> >> >> >> ____________________________________________________________________________________ >> Want to start your own business? >> Learn how on Yahoo! Small Business. >> http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/r-index >> >> To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> with the subject unsubscribe. >> >> To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, >> please visit the list home page at >> >> http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, > please visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > DISCLAIMER: The Information transmitted in this email is solely for the addressee. It is confidential and may be legally privileged. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. Any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken by anyone other than by the intended recipient is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended recipient then kindly delete the mail from your system. Any opinion or views expressed in this mail may not necessarily reflect that of Punjab National Bank. The bank considers unencrypted email as an insecure mode of communication. To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
