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May the herbs be sweet to us.

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May the sun bestow joy on us.

May every direction bring us happiness.

Joint Memorandum from AIDWA

December 24, 2012

Shri Pranab Mukherjee

President of India

Rashtrapati Bhawan

New Delhi

Dear Rashtrapatiji,

We, representatives of women’s organizations with membership of lakhs of women all over the country meet you to urge you to use our good offices to make the Government accept and identify accountability at different levels for the increasing crimes against women.  In the context of the brutal gang rape of a young 23 year old woman in a moving bus in the Capital, the question arises as to who is to be held responsible for the increasing crime graph against women and children in the capital of this country and what action is to be taken against them.

We are part of the ongoing protests in this city to express our outrage at this crime. We know that by and large the protests are peaceful yet the police have used batons, tear gas shells and vigilance against the protesters. We ask you to intervene to get the Government to stop these brutal police actions and to come out with concerte measures to secure women’s safety and well being in public places.

We deeply regret that the statements from the Honourable Prime Minister and Home Minister have not addressed the issues in any comprehensive or holistic manner. There are immediate stepsas also long term monitoring measures which require to be taken. Our suggestions include;

(1) Action against top police officials in Delhi including the Police Commissioner who have willfully failed to implement the guidelines and directions set out for security in the capital for women decided earlier by the Home Ministry (attached)  as also the violation of repeated assurances given to women’s organizations on these issues. There must be standard operating procedures for any crime against women which include immediate registration of FIR and a speedy time bound investigation and filing of case before the court. Any police official violating the standard operating procedures should be punished. Senior police officials must be mandated to monitor the security measures as well as implementation of standard operating procedures.

(2) There are several Bills pending with the Government regarding sexual assault on women. The Government has diluted the recommendations of women’s organizations on amendments to the IPC and Crpc in the draft placed before parliament. These include amendments for rape clauses, including marital rape, sexual harassment, stripping, stalking and other types of sexual assault. The suggestion for our amendments has been to make the  punishment more stringent and the judicial processes time bound. At present the system creates and recreates injustices at every stage. This must be stopped.

(3) All pending cases of sexual assault, over one lakh at present, must be transferred to fast track courts.

(4) Punishment to those providing social and political protection to the accused.

We request you to act urgently to intervene with the Government on these issues.

Yours sincerely

Brinda Karat

(Kirti Singh), (Sehba Farooqui) --All India Democratic Women’s Association

                                                                         

(Beena Jain) -- All India Women’s Conference                                  

(Dr. Indu Agnihotri) -- Centre for Women’s Development Studies

(Jyotsna Chatterjee) -- Joint Women’s Programme

(Dr. Mohini Giri) – Ms. Srirupa Mitra Choudhary -- Guild of Service

                                                   

(Vimal Thorat) -- All India Dalit Mahila Adhikar Manch

(Annie Raja) -- National Federation Of Indian Women                                                      

(Sheeba Varghese) --  Young Women’s Christian Association of India

(Purnima) – Nirantar

(Sunita Dhar), (Vrinda Grover) – Jagori

Annexure

Guidelines include:

Mapping of areas prone to increased cases of sexual violence against women in the city, to ensure proper security measures;  proper street lighting and lighting of all public places such as women’s  toilets in resettlement colonies and crowded areas; action against all bus, truck and taxi owners who ply vehicles with tinted glasses; verification of antecedents of all bus owners who are to be held accountable for their employees; identification of drivers and conductors and other employees to be prominently displayed.

Message from AIDWA

Dear Friends,

On this outrageous incident of brutal gang rape in the moving bus in Delhi, all of us have to unite and strongly express our protest and shock while demanding immediate action from the police and the government. Let us come together in front of 

"ITO Police Head Quarters at 11am tomorrow(19th December, 2012)" to voice our outrage.

Greetings,

Sudha Sundararaman
General Secretary, AIDWA

Two Week Certificate Course on Research Methodology and Training

Centre for Women's Development Studies
announces a Two Week Certificate Course  on
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Required Qualification: A Master’s Degree in the Social Sciences/ Humanities (Eligibility: Faculty members of the University and Colleges in the NCR Region; Western UP, Haryana, Rajasthan and / Registered Research Scholars)   (This course is specially aimed at SC/ ST Candidates. Other applicants may be considered in the event of shortage of candidates)
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Call for Papers

The Gender, Ecology and Dalit Studies of Sree Sankaracharya University of  Sanskrit, Kalady, Kerala organizes a two day National Seminar  “Development Imaginations: Gender, Ecological and Dalit Critical  Engagements” on February 13 and 14, 2013 which will be held at University headquarters, Kalady.

Key Speakers : Prof. Uma Chakravarti, Dr. Gabriele Dietrich

Date for submission of abstracts: 15 December 2012

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Duplicate Books

The CWDS Library is offering the following extra copies of books/Monographs related to the women to the interested libraries on the first come first basis. Please contact on the following Phone No: 91-11-32226931/E-mail: cwdslib@vsnl.net for further details.

List Of Duplicate Books (S. No. 76-136)

76.	Nayyar, Rohini	Estimating district income in India/by Rohini Nayyar, Meenakshi Rajeev and Vinod Vyasulu.	New Delhi: MacMillan	2003	xix, 138p
77.	India. Lok Sabha Secretariat	Constituent Assembly debates: official report	New Delhi: The Secretariate	1999	913p
78.	N.R. Madhava Menon and Padma Seth (ed)	Gender justice reporter  - An Annual Publication Reporting Developments in Law Concerning Status of Women, Vol.1, Jan.1995	New Delhi: Centre for Women and Law	1995	103p.
79.	Kapur, Ratna	Subversive sites: feminist engagements with law in India/by Ratna Kapur and Brenda Cossman.	New Delhi: Sage	1996	352p
80.	Majlis: A Legal and Cultural Centre	Judgement call: an insight into muslim women's right to maintenance/by Flavia Agnes.	Mumbai: Majlis	2001	105p
81.	Mediratta, Surinder	Handbook of law, women, and employment: policies, issues, legislation, and case law.	New Delhi: Oxford Univesity Press	2009	xxv, 238p
82.	Multiple Action Research Group	Our Laws.: Rape	New Delhi: The Group	1992	32p
83.	Sachidananda	Womens rights: myth and reality /by Sachidananda and Ramesh P Sinha.	Jaipur: Printwell	1984	vi, 126p
84.	Shamsuddin Shams (ed.)	Women, law and social change	New Delhi: Ashish	1991	xxi, 350p
85.	A. R.Desai (ed)	Womens liberation and politics of religious personal laws in India	Bombay: A R Desai	1986	ix, 100p
86.	Women's Research and Action Group	Women, law and customary practices	Mumbai: Women's Research and Action Group	1997	95p.
87.	Women's Research and Action Group	Muslim women's views on personal laws:the influence of socio-economic factors/by Vahida Nainar.	Bombay: The Group	2000	56p.
88.	United Nations Development Fund for Women	Violence, law and women's rights in South Asia/ed. by Savitri Goonesekere	New Delhi: Sage	2004	352p
89.	Lawyers Collective Women's Rights Initiative	Staying alive: third monitoring and evaluation report 2009 on the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005	New Delhi: The Organisation	2009.	xii, 213p
90.	Dhagamwar, Vasudha	Women and divorce: an attempt to test awareness of law amongst women and to determine the role played by our education system in this area.	Bombay: Somaiya	1987	xiii, 132p
91.	Dhagamwar, Vasudha	Towards the uniform civil code.	Bombay: N.M.Tripathi	1989	166p
92.	India. Ministry of Panchayati Raj	Study on elected women representative in panchayati raj institutions: based on a nationwide survey by ACNielsen ORG-MARG	New Delhi: The Ministry	2008	xiii, 161p
93.	Ramesh, Asha	33 1/3 percent reservation towards political empowerment/by Asha Ramesh and Bharti Ali.	Bangalore: Books for Change	2001	xvi, 88p
94.	Sakhuja, Swarn Lata	The medical and health care of women: a sociological study of rural and tribal hilly areas in Uttaranchal Pradesh	New Delhi: Gyan	2008	223p
95.	Monica Das Gupta, Lincoln C. Chen and T.N. Krishnan (ed)	Health, poverty and development in India	Delhi: Oxford University Press	1996	viii, 369p
96.	Lakshmi Lingam (ed)	Understanding women's health issues: a reader	New Delhi: Kali for Women	1998	xi, 228p
97.	World Health Organization	Women of South-East Asia: a health profile	New Delhi: The Organisation	2000.	313p
98.	Nayar, Usha	The unborn daughters of Delhi.	New Delhi: Women Press	2006	xix, 363p
99.	Michael A. Koenig (ed)	Reproductive health in India: new evidence	Jaipur: Rawat	2008	383p
100.	World Bank	Sparing lives: better reproductive health for poor women in South Asia/by Meera Chatterjee	New Delhi: MacMillan	2008	xviii, 266p
101.	International Center for Research on Women	Innovative, women-initiated community level: response to domestic violence/by Anuradha Rajan and Nandita Bhatla A study of Nari Adalat, Baroda and Mahila Panch, Rajkot /by Mahila Samakhya, Gujarat.	New Delhi: The Centre	2002	114p.
102.	Merry, Sally Engle	Human rights and gender violence: translating international law into local justice	New Delhi: Oxford University Press	2009	ix, 269p
103.	Omvedt, Gail	Violence against women: new movements and new theories in India.	New Delhi: Kali for women	1990	42p
104.	-------	Speaking tree, women speak Asia-Pacific public hearing on crimes against women related to the violence of development.	Bangalore: Vimochana	1995	137p
105.	Chhaya Datar	The struggle against violence	Calcutta: Stree	1993	198p
106.	Madhu D. Joshi	Women and children in prostitution: human rights perspectives (Report of National Workshop)	New Delhi: Uppal	1997	viii, 134p
107.	United Nations Development Fund for Women	Enable: creating enabling environment for rehabilitation of survivors of trafficking/by Achal Bhagat	New Delhi: The Fund	2006	vii, 100p.
108.	United Nations Development Fund for Women	Outgrowing the pain: individual psychological intervention for survivors of trafficking/by Achal Bhagat.	New Delhi: The Fund	2006	vii, 142p
109.	Naik, J P	Equality, quality and quantity: the elusive triangle in Indian education	New Delhi: Allied	1975.	142p
110.	National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration	Education for all by 2000: Indian perspective.	New Delhi: The Institute	1990	107p
111.	Education Commission	Education and national development report	New Delhi: National Council of Educational Research and Training	1986	xxxiv, 992p
1112.	India. Ministry of Human Resource Development. Department of Education. CABE Committee on Policy	Report.- Chaired by Shri N.Janardhana Reddy	New Delhi: The Ministry	1992	viii, 86p.
113.	A.B.Shah (ed)	The social context of education: essays in the honour of Professor J.P.Naik	1978	1978	xxii, 276p
114.	India. Ministry of Education	Challenge of education -a policy perspective: appendices.	New Delhi	1985	117p.
115.	National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration	Elementary education in India: where do we stand - State report card 2005/by Arun C. Mehta	New Delhi: The Institute	2006	xxi, 59p.
116.	National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration	Elementary education in India: where do we stand ? - State report cards 2004/by Arun C. Mehta.	New Delhi: The Institute	2005	xxi, 25p
117.	National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration	Elementary education in India: progress towards UEE - Analytical report 2004-05/by Arun C. Mehta.	New Delhi: The Institute	2006	373p
118.	National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration	Elementary education in India: where do we stand? - District report cards 2004/by Arun C. Mehta.  2 vols.	New Delhi: The Institute	2005	262p.; 538p.
119.	National University of Educational Planning and Administration	Elementary education in India: progress towards UEE - analytical report 2006-07/by Arun C. Mehta.	New Delhi: The University	2008	xxxii, 185p
120.	Institute of Human Rights Education	Human rights education: child rights - students module - Part II /by I. Devasahayam.	Madurai: The Institute	2004	xi, 109p
121.	National Council of Educational Research and Training	National curriculum framework 2005.	New Delhi: The Council	2005	xvii, 140p
122.	Bhandari, R K	Educational development of women in India.	New Delhi: Ministry of Education and Culture	1982	ii, 109p
123.	Nair, P.V. Bhaskaran	Returns of higher education of women in India: project report.	Thrissur: University of Calicut	2000	125p
124.	Solomon, Barbara Miller	In the company of educated women: a history of women and higher education in America.	New Delhi: Asian Books	1990	298p.
125.	Subhash Bhatnagar and Robert Schware (ed)	Information and communication technology in development: cases from India	New Delhi: Sage	2000	230p.
126.	Verghese, Jamila	Her gold and her body	Ghaziabad: Vikas	1980	xi, 228p
127.	Fisch, Jorg	Immolating women: a global history of widow-burning from ancient times to the present.	Delhi: Permanent Black	2005	x, 610p
128.	Major, Andrea	Pious flames: European encounters with Sati 1500-1830	New Delhi: Oxford University Press	2006	x, 258p
129.	Population Council	Looking back, looking forward: a profile of sexual and reproductive health in India/ed. by Shireen J. Jejeebhoy	Jaipur: Rawat	2004	xvi, 240p
130.	Roy, Debal K. Singha	Women, new technology and development: changing relations in rural India	New Delhi: Manohar	1995	223p
131.	Breastfeeding Promotion Network of India	Status of infant and young child feeding in 49 districts (98 blocks) of India 2003: a national report of the quantitative study/by Arun Gupta and Y.P. Gupta.	New Delhi: The Network.	2004	29p.
132.	Breastfeeding Promotion Network of India	Status of infant and young child feeding in 49 districts (98 blocks) of India 2003: a national report of the quantitative study/by Arun Gupta and Y.P. Gupta.	New Delhi: The Network	2004.	29p.
133.	Centre for Women's Development Studies	A pathmaker: tributes to Vina Mazumdar/ed. by Lotika Sarkar, Kumud Sharma and Leela Kasturi.	New Delhi: Rainbow	2002	72p
134.	Aparna Basu.	The pathfinder Dr.Muthulakshmi Reddi	New Delhi: All India Women's Conference	----	143p
135.	N.N. Vohra and Sabyasachi Bhattacharya (ed)	Looking back: India in the twentieth century.	New Delhi: National Book Trust	2001	368p