Protest For The Rights of Disabled Women (Woman's Day Eve) Public event · By Kamayani Bali Mahabal and Satyen K. Bordoloi
Wednesday, 7 March 2012 17:00 until 18:30 Promenade, Opp Jazz By The Bay, Churchgate Station (2 mins walk), Mumbai Everyone’s celebrating woman’s day except disabled women. That is because a woman with disability is doubly disabled. First she is a woman who is discriminated against in society and second is a debilitating disability that hampers everything she does. This Women’s Day, 100 women on wheelchairs in Mumbai, force you to think about these women who are among the most discriminated people in society. • Disabled Women are thrown out of flights with impunity (Jeeja Ghosh, 20th Feb, Anjali Agarwal 22nd Feb) • Disabled Women are raped every where (A hearing challenged girl gets raped in a Bengal Hospital, 29th Feb) • They rarely get married. • Disabled Women are not even part of the women’s rights movement across the country. • There is no woman with disability in parliament, even in Rajya Sabha. • Disabled women are denied the right to motherhood. On the eve of Woman’s Day on 7th of March 2012, 100 plus women on wheelchairs and hundreds of their supporters - activists, celebrities, parents etc. - will also sit on wheel chairs to express solidarity for women with disability in India. Brought together by the ADAPT Rights Group, Mumbai, they will force Mumbaikars to think – how long will this disability continue, how long will women with disability face apartheid like discrimination? Will we ever create a society so inclusive that woman with disability will have equal rights like the rest of us? Will we ever have inclusion enough for disabled women to want to celebrate Woman’s Day? Come join us in making a positive change in society. Venue: Promenade, Opp Jazz By The Bay, Churchgate Station (2 mins walk) Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, 7th March 2012, 5:00 PM RSVP: Bhavana Mukherjee: 9833179394 [email protected] Madhavi Kumar: 9867661821 [email protected] https://www.facebook.com/events/178676585579811/ -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist Hey folks, coined this term ” Kracktivism “, check out my blog http://kractivist.wordpress.com/Kracktivism Blog for girl child- http://fassmumbai.wordpress.com/ https://twitter.com/#!/Kracktivist https://www.facebook.com/kamayani *I carry a torch in one hand And a bucket of water in the other: With these things I am going to set fire to Heaven And put out the flames of Hell So that voyagers to God can rip the veils And see the real goal....... Rabia (Rabi'a Al-'Adawiyya) * -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "humanrights movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
