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Join Our Struggle
Marching for Justice and Dignity of Life
April 1st - 3rd, 2008. |
To impress upon the government and policy makers the urgent need to address their issues, single women from across Himachal, will undertake a three- day padyatra from Arki to Shimla.
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Founder and Director of SUTRA |
Mr. Subhash Mendhapurkar
“SUTRA was founded to act as a ‘conscious keeper’ of society. In order to achieve that, we needed to establish our credibility first which was done through service provision model, and then we started acting as Conscious Keepers by raising number of issues that affect Gender Equity”
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| SUTRA |
"SUTRA believes that all the democratic institutions created under the Constitution of India shall fulfil their constitutional obligations towards citizens only when people are collectively empowered and the State evolves all its policies based on principle of Gender & Equity.”
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| Ekal Nari Shakti Sangathan (ENSS) |
In order to address the concerns and hardships facing single women in the State, in 2005, SUTRA with support from Ekal Naree Sangathan Rajasthan, initiated the formation of “Ekal Naree Shakti Sangathan” (ENSS), Himachal Pradesh.
ENSS is an association of single women that fights to secure the rights of single women to live with dignity and justice. Today 5,500 single women- divorced, deserted, unmarried (beyond a certain age) or those whose husbands have gone missing, are a part of ENSS across seven districts of Himachal Pradesh.
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| Profiles of Single Women
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SUTRA has collated svereal case studies on the struggles single women face in pursuit of security and sustenance in Himachal Pradesh
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