International Women’s Day Events in India

1) Fight-Back, an innovative orgnisation started by the male employees of Cell 18 led by Zubin Driver (though the campaign is a personal initiative) after the New Year’s Eve Molestation Case outside JW Mariott Hotel in Mumbai last year, is all set to take another innovative turn on International Women’s Day. This year, they are publically condeming Female Foeticide and they are asking you to help condemn it too. All you have to do is Call your family doctor today…and get him/her to publicly condemn Female Foeticide.

“One doctor per person…get us his/her name ASAP”

This is what they said in their Facebook invite:

They’re missing since pre-independence. They vanish every year from the census. We murder two million a year…in urban and rural India.

Female Foeticide is one of India’s most shameful secrets. It is an activity supported by doctors, encouraged by rich folks and rampant all over the place. No one gets convicted, no one gets jail time….dead babies can’t fight cases in court.

March 8th is International women’s day. Let’s take a stand on behalf of India’s missing women.

Let’s get doctors to take a stand AGAINST this.

Let’s take a personal pledge to squash this horrible crime in our families, peer groups and circles of influence.

Agenda:

• let’s shake up the Indian Medical fraternity? FIGHT-BACK members will call prominent doctors and ask them to take a public pledge NOT to encourage female foeticide.

• Let’s launch a series of public awareness campaigns + activities on 8th March and keep it going right through the year?

Ideas welcome!

PS: Those who want to join the group calling doctors, please write in! Imagine if you could just call 10 doctors?

keep the faith!
zubin
FB Team

Join the group on Facebook here. Visit the Website here

2) Are you in Mumbai on March 8 and want to show your support in International Women’s Day?  Here is what you can do:

Date: 08 March 2009
Time: 09:00 – 18:00
Event: International Women’s Day pre-conference to 14th WCOTH
About: Pre conference for the 14th World Conference on Tobacco or Health
Venue: National Centre for Performing Arts, Mumbai
Organisation: Network of Women Against Tobacco.

The International Network of Women Against Tobacco (INWAT) is a global network of tobacco control specialists dedicated to achieve improved health and greater equality among women and girls in the world by eliminating tobacco use and exposure.

Source: http://www.internationalwomensday.com/search.asp

3) At Baptala

Date: 08 March 2009
Time: 10:00 – 17:00
Event: Seminar on Voilence on Women & Girls and Rallys at 5 major towns in the project area
About: Seminar on Violence on Women and Girls. Selected delegates from 17 locations of three districts will be attending the seminar and in Rallies 1,000 women in each place will attend the rallies will be started at 16:00 in the evening and ends at 18:30 by exhibiting candles in the towns.

4) Rallies at Tenali, Guntur District, Ongole, Prakasam Disrict, Repalle, Ponnur

Venue: Seminar at Kamma Kalyana Mantapam, Bapatla, Guntar District, Andhra Pradesh, Baptala, 522 101
Organisation: Viveka Service Society

It is an NGO having 15 years of experience in formation of Community Based Organizations for women exclusively and organizing International Women’s Day for the last 3 years successfully and providing all the international information to the local women in vernacular language to make them equipped with the knowledge and awareness.

Source: http://www.internationalwomensday.com/search.asp

5) If you’re in Delhi, here’s how you can show your support:

Date: 08 March 2009
Time: 11:00 8 March 2009 – 17:00 13 March 2009
Event: Dilli Ki Shaan – Celebrating Womanhood
About: 2500 non elite women from communities across Delhi gathering and discussing concepts of empowerment and other issues such as health and community development.
Venue: Kathashala and India Habitat Center, New Delhi, 110017
Organisation: Katha: A non government organisation that fosters empowerment of women and culture, linking through translation and socio economic and intellectual transformation for the non elites.

Source: http://www.internationalwomensday.com/search.asp

6) In Ramagundam

Date: 25 February 2009
Time: 17:00 – 19:00
Event: International Women’s Day Celebration
About: International Women’s Day will start at our Deepti Ladies Club, Ramagundam
Venue: Deepti Ladies Club, Ramagundam, NTPC, Ramagundam, 505215
Organisation: Deepti Ladies Club: Involved in upliftment of children and women in our colony and engaging all colony members for improving their life

Source: http://www.internationalwomensday.com/search.asp

7) In Sasthamcotta

Date: 08 March 2009
Time: 09:00 – 17:00
Event: Women’s Day Celebration
About: Free medical chech up camp, educative seminar and recreation time
Venue: Padmavathy Hospital, Sasthamcotta, 690521
Organisation: Padmavathy Medical Foundation: A 150 bedded multi specialty hospital

Source: http://www.internationalwomensday.com/search.asp