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Comment by Dr Mitu Khurana on January 28, 2011 at 7:10pm

Thanks Rituu for sharing the information. I am sure many of the members will have a lot to share.

Comment by Rituu B. Nanda on January 28, 2011 at 12:31pm

The Australian Reproductive Health Alliance as the secretariat for the Parliamentary Group on Population and Development (PGPD) is calling for submissions for a Roundtable on Gender-based Violence in the Asia-Pacific region, taking place in Canberra, Australia on 9 May 2011.
 

The aim of this Roundtable is to bring together a variety of key stakeholders, including parliamentarians, experts, bureaucrats, and civil society/non-government organisation (NGO) representatives, to share information and ideas regarding gender-based violence in the Asia-Pacific, in order to better understand and address this issue.


The PGPD looks forward to hearing from you if you have worked or presently work in the Asia-Pacific region on gender-based violence. Any questions or comments please contact: Ms. Joanna Lindner, Parliamentary Officer at: secretariat(at)pgpd.asn.au Tel: +612 6249 6566   Fax: +612 6247 0291. For more information on the PGPD please visit http://www.pgpd.asn.au.

Comment by Dr Mitu Khurana on January 27, 2011 at 5:16am

Thanks Laurence,

Thanks for sharing your experience. Yes definitely it would be a much better place we all could learn to communicate our feelings and emotions without hatred,violence, anger etc. I feel anger management and respect for others is really going down. Our society is becoming more and more violent as the days are going by. We would love to know if you are getting the communities esp those prone to indulge in gender based violence in the workshops?

In India, police had started a movement , in which they tried to sensitize the males regarding respect for females. But I do not see any change. The people who are prone to indulge in violence do not sign up for the workshops, and the people who sign up for the workshops are usually who are aware of the need for the change, and are willing to change.

Moreover one disturbing trend in our country is a false insiatnce on trying to save the institution of marriage. Even when one of the partners has been physically abused , and there are clear cut indicatiions of abuse, still the couple is again and again ounselled to stay together and save the marriage. This is by none other than the police and the judiciary. The pressures are even more when there are children involved , not realizing that a person who abuses the partner is also liable to abuse the cchildren.Thanks for sharing your experiences.

Comment by Laurence Gilliot on January 27, 2011 at 3:31am

Hi friends,

 

I just did a two day workshop on Non Violent Communication and I have been using this method for 3 years now. I find it extremely useful to connect with my own feelings and the needs behind those feelings but also to communicate in a more loving and compassionate way. I believe that if we want to overcome violence, hatred, aggression, anger, we need to work together, as a team, to understand each other better, to express our unmet needs, to work on our emotions and accept ourselves the way we are...

 

For more on NVC: https://www.cnvc.org/

Watch a beautiful video from Marchall Rosenberg, the founder: http://aidscompetence.ning.com/video/non-violent-communication-a

 

Laurence

Comment by Dr Mitu Khurana on January 26, 2011 at 5:57pm

Dear Freinds, thanks for joining the community, We would all like to learn from each other. It would be wonderful if we can share our expiriences with each other regarding gender based violence and also regarding tackling the issue in the community, the approach of the government and the law keepers etc.

We are waiting to hear your experiences so that we can learn from each other.

Comment by Dr Mitu Khurana on January 26, 2011 at 7:20am

The Global Walk for India's Missing Girls' is a march organized by people all over the world to protest against female foeticide and infanticide, the worst genocide in India's history. In March 2010 , over a 1000 people walked in San Francisco, Delhi, Mumbai, Jamshedpur, Pondicherry, Kuwait and Melbourne.

In India over the last 20 years, 10 million girls have been killed by their parents, either before or immediately after birth because they consider daughters a burden.

Why are these horrific crimes against women being ignored? Where is the public outcry? Where is the media attention?

The next Global Walk for India's Missing Girls will be held in March 2011, on the occasion of International Women's Day and is aimed at creating awareness and spurring action in the Indian and the International communities.The Walk will take place in San Francisco, Mumbai, Delhi, Jamshedpur, Pondicherry , Melbourne ( Australia), and Kampala (Uganda).

Walk for India's Missing Girls is founded by the documentary film team 'Petals In The Dust: India's Missing Girls' - www.petalsinthedust.com.
We hope through the walk and our film to create awareness globally, of the elimination of India's girls.

Please join us in large numbers to make this event a success. The organizers of the March in various cities and countries are-

-Abhitej Singh - Chandigarh
Beaula Knauf - Goa
Deepu Thomas - Pondicherry
Isaac Farias - Washington D.C
Jackie Colaco- Bangalore
Kashmir Singh- Toronto
Maryanne Ekka-Jamshedpur
Dr.Mitu Khosla, Dr. Ash Pachauri and Bijayalakshmi Nanda - Delhi
Ravneet Kaur- Melbourne
Sonal Alvares-Mumbai
Nyna Pais-Caputi- San Francisco

 

Please Join us and also help us spread the word. If someone wants to organize the walk in their city , you are most welcome to contact us via email at mitukhurana@gmail.com, nynacaputi@gmail.com

Thanks.

Comment by Dr Mitu Khurana on January 22, 2011 at 5:59pm

HI Friends,

sorry for vanishing for toooooo long after creating this group. I was a bit busy in my exams, court cases .... and so on. As they say -there is a good news and a bad news.

I will share the good news first- the good news is I have won the citizen journalist award for my episode on female feticide.

and the bad news is- the crime data has shown that 1 in every 4 rapes occur in Capital city of Delhi. Capital of India has witnesses 104 dowry deaths in the last year and still the government is considering an ammendment to the dowry laws fearing misuse of the laws!!!!

I really wonder , why authorities are not trying to make the law work. Rather they are trying to make the dowry law in India completely toothless.

It is known that one of the major reasons for female feticide in India is dowry, becuase of which parents consider daughters a liability and sons an asset.

Moreover we students had done a study on the actions initiated by the government in the last 2 years in establishments found violating the laws against sex determination. The shocking results showed that in 95% of the cases only show cause notice was served and no further action taken.

In even my case , the entire effrot of the government has gone into saving and sheilding the  guilty , rather than prosecuting them. How do we than proceed to save our daughters from being killed even before they get their life.

Comment by Korey Anthony Chisholm on January 16, 2011 at 3:37am

Welcome Robin, Trust that we can learn from your experiences

Comment by Robin Jesudoss on January 13, 2011 at 12:19pm

Hi Today I joined,

Comment by Autry Haynes on January 12, 2011 at 7:57pm

No doubt gender based violence has been silently intruding the fabric of our society. We truelly recognize this as an human rights issue and are concerned because we understand the threats to the livelihood of others we have to associate with. No doubt our human resource is our major asset hence the need to protect them. In our quest of uniting to fight the this threat we need to be SALTy. While we help communities to change their ways of thinking and ways of working, we have the assurance that we have each other as support. That is our strength, despite our geographical distances, our ability to communicate, reflect, sharing experiences, we are able to draw encouragement and strength [the will] to continue on this journey. We are re-energized by our reflection in this space. Dear Friends / colleagues we continue to look forward to your posting, sharing the remarkable experiences.

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