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‘RECLAIM THE CITY BY NIGHT WALK IN DELHI ON INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS DAY’
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Claim Your City By Night 11 Poster
Note from Shreya Talukdar : The Youth anchor of the walk:
Claim Your City By Night is an important event in the SAFP calendar. I as a Calcuttan having seen the appalling conditions of Delhi safety in the last three weeks made me dwell deeper into the inefficiencies of the system. Why is that that women and youth do not venture out of their homes alone after sunset? Why is that my grandparents keep persuading me to come back home before nine? Why is the incidence of crime rate so high in Delhi?
Its a better and a smoother life in Calcutta where young girls, women, youth and the old regularly celebrate weekends together or sings old songs and have dance sessions. This practice is even carried out in cities like Cairo, Vancouver, Belgium
We need to work towards our empowerment and in the process conserve the natural resources of the city for climate change adaptation. For this we have to respect the basic right of the people to walk freely in the city without any kind of risks at night , the right to access essential services, infrastructure and government schemes. Women should also have a say in the decision making process . Workers have every right to ask for migration and placement centers and youth the right to ask for space for learning and for fun. There are hence a lot of social causes that are inter-linked with each other and need to be fought for collectively. This is what makes this walk quite different from teh others which concentrate solely on safety of women or any other individual social cause.
I am here in the city to propagate this cause…Isn’t Delhi with me on this? J
A team of young people have worked hard this whole year planning out Women Resource Zones in OKHLA area of East Delhi and a horticulture center in Abul Fazal !!! Kudos to the Jamia architecture students and the Spanish volunteers from Barcelona. We also presented our plans to the National Empowerment Mission for Women which met with a tremendous response. There were important conferences with ISST and IGSSS where our ideas were highly commended. We have worked at the ground level speaking to dalit women, SC’s and ST’s about the discrimination they are subjected too and trust me privileged people like us wouldn’t want to be in their place.
All these instances have now culminated in this night walk where important resolutions will be taken and a pledge to work for the disadvantaged and under- privileged.
As young people we do not have resources, knowledge but so what ?? We will find out a way and do our bit our own way! …There is no harm in giving some energy and time to these social causes… and be a leader in this initiative…you are getting a platform to showcase your ideas, plans , contribute and take action. Come be a part of it.
Come join me in this effort and make this event a highly successful one. Our message should reach millions across. Come be a part of this campaign !!!! There are various ngos joining me and good media response is expected. Everyday various articles on the walk are being pulished in the papers.Also watch out for radio announcements on the walk .
Upload the poster from the facebook event page I have created. Its called “ CLAIM YOUR CITY BY NIGHT WALK IS BACK”. Make copies of the poster and paste it everywhere . Spread the word !!! GET PEOPLE ALONG J
Hoping to see you on 10th December, 2011 at 7 :00pm in front of the Statesman HouseJ
Special attractions:
films
Band performance
Songs
BE THERE TO DO YOUR BIT….AND MAKE YOUR CITY PROUD !!!!
SHREYA TALUKDAR
RSVP : 07389902810.
send in your mail : shreya.t92@gmail.com
Case Study MP and Delhi
Each case story in this documentation resonates with the need for developing skills in women to manage productive resources better. This case study compilation is a part of a wider study that compiles evidence on the gender resource data gap. Development plans at all levels need to set asides parcels of land use as women resource zone built within it for women to access both built and natural infrastructure, as women have been historically denied equal access to resources.
State government needs to intervene through affirmative action to increase the resource base for women. Women active in the national land right movement got very little in return for investing their energies. State policies for women don’t translate either into active programmes to create gender equality. Therefore, resource gaps between men and women have yet to decrease. Area development plans in which spaces would be demarcated for women to manage and access collectively for care services and livelihoods could be a remedy.
Presentation of WRZ in Okhla
This presentation developed by students of Barcelona School of Architecture, in cooperation with Jamia School of Architecture provides a visual imagery of WRZ could be in Okhla area. The students will work again in November to refine these plan further
Taal Report Sept 30
Convergence program with a child perspective
SAFP was commissioned to document a convergence program with a child perspective. This draft report is temporarily on SAFP web site to share this report. An example of caring community is witnessed in Shivpuri in Madhya Pradesh through the work of TAAL in a project supported by UNICEF. The centre of the activity is a Baal Sammoh or the child rights group of children under from 6 to14yrs who are supported by a Bal Sahayata Dal group of elders that includes Punchayat members . The elders and children select issues that they want to work on in their village and also identify the most needy families who require support from state and central schemes. The TAAL staff trains the Bal Sahayata Dal to monitor which scheme has reached the families on a monthly basis such that the delivery of entitlements through PDS, Anganwadi, Pension, MNREGA, Nutrition rehabilitation centre etc is done. This is done through a family monitoring of scheme and entitlement delivery card that is kept at a village information and child centre for any one to review.
This community has thus collectively cared for elders and children at Shivpuri with a workable model that can be worked for institutionalization through out India.The center gets together both adults and children to work upon issues bought to their notice that need to be resolved through the gram
punchayat. So far the children have succeeded in getting a boundary wall of a school, a land and building grant for a new school building, an aganwadi started in their village. Besides elders are now motivated to organize the centre as a place that can work for convergence of all schemes from the government. Women’s equal participation seems an exclusion in this process so far. The women in Punchayat need to be trained to work on this further.