*People with Disabilities and Empowerment*
Disability Rights Initiative, Bombay, invites all to
participate in a
meeting with Justice Zakeria Mohammed Yacoob of South
Africa. Justice
Zakeria Mohammed Yacoob of the South African
Constitutional Court is
visiting India and meeting with its people. Justice
Yacoob is
delivering a series of lectures all over the country
and he will be
speaking in Mumbai on 11th June 2007.
Justice Yacoob will share his experiences on
disability issues and
enumerate the importance of understanding that
problems faced by
disabled persons are not to be seen in isolation. The
struggle for
equality of disabled persons should go hand in hand
with the struggle of
equality by women, by Dalit and all those who are
discriminated, with no
food, shelter, employment or on the basis of sexuality
to come together
as a single voice. He will speak variety of issues
concerning the
struggle to achieve social equality and justice.
Justice Yacoob
believes that India and South Africa have a lot to
learn from each other
as both countries have many similarities as the
respective constitutions
of both the countries are the product of the struggle
for freedom,
fighting imperialism. However, constitution and
legislation themselves
are not sufficient to achieve social justice, there
are springboards for
greater change and the duty of that court is to define
and defend a
fundamental belief in human rights and
non-discrimination.
The participants can interact and ask questions and
this would be
followed by a quick overview of the disability
movement in India .
About Justice Yacoob
Zakeria Mohammed Yacoob, born in 1948, became blind at
the age of
sixteen months as a result of meningitis. Justice
Yacoob was a member of
the executive of the Natal Indian Congress from 1981
to 1991. He helped
to plan and organise, participated in, and addressed
numerous mass
meetings aimed at supporting the struggle against
apartheid. He was
chairperson and a member of the executive of the
Democratic Lawyers
Association. Presently Justice Yacoob sits on the
Constitutional Court
of South Africa and is Chancellor of the University of
Durban-Westville.
He is also the Chairperson for the South African
National Council for
the Blind, where he sits on the Executive Committee
and the National
Management Committee.
Venue:
YWCA
2nd Floor
Madam Cama Road,
Opp. Regal Cinema
Mumbai - 31
Colaba
Date : Monday, 11th June 2007
Time : 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Please Contact Raju Waghmare 09820946125
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