Stories that Matter

From:  Anjuman Ara Begum   Date: Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 12:48 PM Subject: Re: [se-gen] DISCUSSION:Inputs for Preparing the IV and V Alternative Report on the UN CEDAW.Reply by 30 June 2012 To: Gender Community Dear friends, Thank you very much for the call for discussion on alternative reports for CEDAW. North East India (States of Aranuchal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Mizoram and Tripura), is a region that is home to 40 million people belonging to 213 different tribal groups. It has been experienced armed conflict for the last six decades resulting in a high level of militarization and protracted internal conflict. The counter-insurgency policies of successive Indian governments have resulted in widespread human rights abuses. I would like to draw your attention to several issues of crucial importance to the people of Northeast India. First, the Armed Forces Special Powers Act of 1958 grants the Indian armed forces extraordinary powers in desig...

From:  Anjuman Ara Begum [mailto: anju.azad@gmail.com ] Sent:  21 August 2012 03:53 To:  Gender Community Subject:  Re: [se-gen] QUERY: Inclusion of Women in Political Parties of India-Examples; Experiences. Moderators’ Note:   Dear Members, We have kept the  QUERY  on  Inclusion of Women in Political Parties of India  open until further notice. Today’s response is from Anjuman Ara Begum (Guwahati). Anjuman has taken a peek into the inclusion (rather exclusion) of Muslim women in political parties in Assam and Nagaland. We hope to be back with some more responses. Greetings, Malika Dear Members, I welcome and appreciate the discussion on women’s political participation’ on Gender Community’s e-platform. Sometime back I did some field study on the political participation of women in north east India and would like to share my findings and experiences. Inclusion of Muslim Women in Political Parties in Assam In ...

Voices of Survivors Anjuman Ara Begum In any conflict women and children are the worst sufferers. Conflict makes a woman to suffer as victims, survivors, witnesses, negotiators, coping household heads. Women’s roles changes in conflict situation but not necessarily gender relations. Recent ethnic riots on BTAD areas are well known now to people. Electronic media brought the news to world over. As on August 31, 2012 about two lakh 50 thousand people were sheltered in school house turned relief camps. In the month of July 2012, the number of displaced people was about four lakh fifty thousand, largest displacement after independence as pointed out by many scholars. As a part of the fact finding team I visited the affected area twice. Once as a part of the a peace and solidarity mission comprised of activists from all over India that visited the trouble torn areas of the Western Assam with the objective of ‘assessing the situation, meeting the inmates of both the communities in t...

JOINT ACTION COMMITTEE ON  WOMEN RESERVATION (NMA, ENWO, Watsu Mongdang, NWHD)                                                PRESS RELEASE                           21 st .Oct.2011 In a landmark judgement today for women in the state of Nagaland, Hon’ble Judge of the Guwahati High Court ,Kohima passed the judgement on the Writ Petition filed on behalf of Naga Women by   the Joint Action Committee on Women Reservation consisting of the NMA ,ENWO, Watsu Mongdang and the Naga Women Hoho Dimapur. The JACWR filed the Writ through its two Petitioners– Rosemary Dzuvichu, Advisor,NMA and Abeiu Meru, President,NMA. The Hon’ble Court h...

APRIL 30, 2011 INDIA: The Extraordinary Story of Jyotsna Bewa . http://www.seniorsworldchronicle.com/2011/04/india-extraordinary-story-of-jyotsna.html CAMBRIDGE, Maryland /  TwoCircles.net  / Indian Muslim / Women / April 30, 2011 Extraordinary Stories of Ordinary Women  Meet Jyotsna Bewa of West Garo Hills, Meghalaya By Anjuman Ara Begum,  TwoCircles.net Jyotsna Bewa, 48 years old, was the principal care-taker of the Dargah Sharif of Hazrat Shah Kamal Baba, popularly known as Pirsthan situated in Mahendraganj, West Garo Hills, Meghalaya.  She became the only female  de-facto  care-taker of the Pirsthan in 1998 and continued in the post till 2005, when the management of the Pirsthan was handed over to the Waqf Board of Meghalaya.  She challenged this and as a result a civil suit is pending for disposal in the Supreme Court of India [Appeal No. Review Petition No 13 (SH) of 2008 in writ appeal no. 34(SH) of 2008].  Please tell u...

INTERVIEW: Farooq Ahmed And His Passion For Rewriting History Posted by  Editor  on Friday, June 3, 2011 11:13 am //  No Comment Farooq Ahmed. Image Credit: TwoCircles.net A book, “Manipuri    Muslims : Historical Perspectives 615-2000    CE ,” authored by    Farooque Ahmed  was released in  Imphal  recently. The author talks to Anjuman Ara Begum of TwoCircles.net about Manipuri Muslims and about his work. Qs. What inspired you to write such a book? Ans: I was keen to know about my community or, more precisely, to know about myself in  Manipur  and also to know the history of    Muslims in Manipur . I always looked for history books on Manipuri Muslims but always felt frustrated as there is no comprehensive literature on this topic. After completing my M.A in political science, I started reading history books on Manipur and I read many books like Manipuri Muslims by Khairuddin Khalakpam which was published ...

INTERVIEW: Farooq Ahmed And His Passion For Rewriting History Posted by  Editor  on Friday, June 3, 2011 11:13 am //  No Comment Farooq Ahmed. Image Credit: TwoCircles.net A book, “Manipuri    Muslims : Historical Perspectives 615-2000    CE ,” authored by    Farooque Ahmed  was released in  Imphal  recently. The author talks to Anjuman Ara Begum of TwoCircles.net about Manipuri Muslims and about his work. Qs. What inspired you to write such a book? Ans: I was keen to know about my community or, more precisely, to know about myself in  Manipur  and also to know the history of    Muslims in Manipur . I always looked for history books on Manipuri Muslims but always felt frustrated as there is no comprehensive literature on this topic. After completing my M.A in political science, I started reading history books on Manipur and I read many books like Manipuri Muslims by Khairuddin Khalakpam which was published ...