Protest For The Rights of Disabled Women (Woman's Day Eve)
Public event · By Kamayani Bali Mahabal, Satyen K. Bordoloi and Malini Chib
Today
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]
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*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)
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