By TCN News,
New Delhi: A two days National Convention of Muslim Women with the title ‘Sadak Se Sansad Tak’ has started in New Delhi that would be attended by more than 400 Muslim women coming from different states of Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Uttar Pardesh, West Bengal, Bihar, Kashmir, Andhra Pradesh, Telengana and others.
This convention is organized by Bebaak Collective, a forum of autonomous women’s groups and individuals, striving to further the rights of Muslim women. These groups and individuals come from various states like Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat,Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Bihar, West Bengal, and Madhya Pradesh.
It began working from 2013 with the objective of bringing together the various Muslim women’s’ groups into a network that actively helps to share information, concerns and shared experiences of women with the hope that this will help us articulate a deeper understanding of our issues and work towards collective strategies for addressing them.
The two day convention scheduled on 27th and 28th February, 2016 in New Delhi at Gandhi Smriti Sadan, near Rajghat, New Delhi is considered to be an important gathering which would aim to discuss and debate various issues pertaining to the lives of Muslim women such as education, employment, religious extremism, discrimination, violence and other fundamental rights mandated by Constitution of India.
The participants’ of this convention are Muslim women who are survivors of different kinds of violence inside family and discriminations based on religious faith, gender, narrow identity politics, fundamentalism etc.; And also people who have been working on the rights of Muslim women with a sustained political commitment.
This convention is first of its kind which aims to reiterate not only the ever impending questions of conjugality and personal laws of Muslim women but also it focuses on livelihood issues, social security, equal citizenship rights and so on .
The two day convention will include plenary sessions, discussions and experience sharing through the day and film screening in the evening and will culminate into a rally from Gandhi Smriti to Rajghat on the second day.
The documentary ‘Triyaaq’ will also be screened in this convention. This documentary captures the personal to political journey of Muslim women in their lives.
Justice Rajinder Sachar, Dr. Syeda Hameed, Prof. Zoya Hasan, Prof. Uma Chakravarti and Adv. Vrindra Grover will remain present during the plenary session of the convention.