WOMEN AND HINDUTVA

March 20, 2004 – (South Asia Citizens Wire) Two years after the genocidal attacks on the Muslim community in Gujarat in which women were targeted for horrific violence, we are holding this meeting to expose the different aspects of the Hindu right's 'war on women', and discuss how we can build support for those who are resisting. As the BJP and its allies launch an aggressive election campaign across India we will be looking at how fascism has taken hold and the struggles ahead.

Confronting the violence of fascism in India
Discussion Meeting in International Women's Week
Saturday 13 March 2004,
SOAS, Room G2
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1
2.30pm

All Welcome,
Two years after the genocidal attacks on the Muslim community in Gujarat in which women were targeted for horrific violence, we are holding this meeting to expose the different aspects of the Hindu right's 'war on women', and discuss how we can build support for those who are resisting. As the BJP and its allies launch an aggressive election campaign across India we will be looking at how fascism has taken hold and the struggles ahead.

Speakers include:
Manali Desai (Forum of Indian Leftists, USA): Violence against women in Gujarat
Savita Bhanot (Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies): Hindutva and gender - the British experience South Asia Solidarity Group: What fascism means for women

Plus screening of extracts from Gujarat: a laboratory of Hindu rashtra; and Ayodhya to Varanasi - prayers for peace, 2 recent films on Hindutva directed by Suma Josson.

Copies of 'Threatened Existence - a feminist analysis of the Gujarat genocide' the recent report of the International Initiative for Justice in Gujarat will also be available.

Details: South Asia Solidarity Group: sasg@southasiasolidarity.org
Tel. 020 7267 0923

From South Asia Citizens Wire