Conference and Workshop: Combating Violence against Women. The Programme Details

19.2.2010

9.30-10.30 AM– Registration

10.30-10-45 AM – Shraddhanjali to Late Mrs. Kanta Marwah

10-45-11.00 AM- Introductory Remarks by Anuradha Marwah, Secretary, AAEA.

I. Morning Session: Women and Law/ Chair: Sanjay Kumar

11.00-12.30 AM- Kavita Srivastava and Renuka Pamecha

The session will focus on the history of feminist/women-friendly laws in India and PWDVA as a Human Rights initiative and its scope in activist intervention

(Coffee will be served in the hall)

12.30-1.30 PM – Forum Theatre: Presentations by pandies’ theatre ‘Rape n marriage’ and ‘Rape n romance’, directed by Sanjay Kumar, and general discussion through audience participation (in the drama) on the situations presented and legal remedies available to women.

1.30-2.30 PM – Lunch hosted by senior AAEA member Mrs. Manju Toshniwal. (Sponsored by Toshniwal Industries, Ajmer)

II. Afternoon Session: Experience and Effects of Violence/ Chair: Bharti Sharma

2.30-3.00 PM- Presentation by Sister Mariola – Women Prisoners and Home

3.00-3.45 PM – Presentation by AAEA workers. Effects of Violence on the Community.

AAEA already has ten women’s groups spread over a region of fifty villages in Ajmer district. Our Project Director will discuss the negotiations of rural women with the violence in their lives and its effects on various aspects of development. 3 Case Histories will be presented.

3.45 – 4.30 PM – Responses by Activists, Protection Officers, and Others. Experience and effects of violence

4.30 – 5.00 PM – Tea

20.2.2010

III Morning Session: Activist Experience of Combating Violence/Chair: Renuka Pamecha

10.30 – 12.00: Bharti Sharma and Sudha Tiwari

Shaktishalini details their work in the field of combating violence against women: their contributions towards the provisions of the domestic violence act, and their experience of running a successful shelter home for battered women in Delhi.

(Coffee to be served in the hall)

12.00– 1.00 pandies theatre

Dramatisations of life stories of women from Shaktishalini case files (directed by Sanjay Kumar)

1.00-2.00 – Lunch hosted by Late Mrs. Kanta Marwah’s grandsons Savyasachi Roy and Dhritiman Roy

IV. Afternoon Session – Workshop on Combating Violence against Women/Platform against Violence

2.00-4.00 PM Members of Shaktishalini along with pandies’ theatre, Renuka Pamecha, Sister Mariola, and Vijayalakshmi Joshi will divide the participants into groups and conduct the workshop.

4.00-4.30PM- Summing Up and Future Plans

Indira Pancholi and Anuradha Marwah, Secretary AAEA

4.30 - 5.00 PM – Distribution of certificates of participation and tea

The Programme will include release of Souvenir edited by Medhatithi Joshi.

There will be an exhibition of resource material obtained by AAEA from UNIFEM, New Delhi. Vividha, Jaipur and Jagori, New Delhi will also display their resource material.