Day 15: Dignity at Work: Video Launch
Report by Maryam NayazOn the 15th day of the 2021 Prajnya 16 Days Campaign Against Gender Violence, Prajnya, in partnership with Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung launched a set of videos on workplace sexual...
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Day 14: Child Marriage Consultation
On December 8, 2021, Prajnya invited partner organisations from around Tamil Nadu to share with us their experiences and insights on the rising prevalence of child marriage in the pandemic period and...
View ArticleThe Prajnya Gratitude Post
The Prajnya Gratitude Postby Niroopini MuralidharanDays are flying by; I feel like I just joined Prajnya as the 2021 16 Days Campaign Associate, and we’re already working on post-campaign operations....
View ArticleLetter from Maryam
Hello everyone! This is Maryam, Programme Associate at Prajnya. I have been keen to work on the 16 Days Campaign ever since joining Prajnya in April of 2021, and am glad to say that the experience...
View ArticleThe Blissful Benediction
The Blissful Benedictionby Niroopini MuralidharanI am writing this blog post to convey a special message of thanks to the amazing feminist tribe I have found at Prajnya.I want to first thank Dr. Swarna...
View Article2021 Curtains!
Curtains down on the 2021 Campaign. We're a pack of exhausted and wounded soldiers still! And looking forward to a hybrid campaign in 2022.... inshallah!
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12
And the curtain rises on Prajnya's 12th 16 Days Campaign against Gender Violence since 2008. As you know, we do three in a row and take a sabbatical. What a run, what a ride it's been!This year, we...
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Day 1: The GVR 2022 Launch
We are delighted to launch the 2022 Prajnya Gender Violence in India Report (GVR), on the first day of the 2022 Prajnya 16 Days Campaign Against Gender Violence. For the launch of this year's GVR, we...
View ArticleShowcase Weekend || Prajnya Research on Gender Violence: A Selective Review
Prajnya completed fifteen years in September 2022. With limited resources, we have persisted with our twin research and public education mandates to produce useful resources on gender violence, conduct...
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Day 4: Surviving Violence: Everyday Resilience and Gender Justice Webinar
On the 4th day of the 2022 Prajnya 16 Days Campaign Against Gender violence, the 'Surviving Violence: Everyday Resilience and Gender Justice' webinar brought together the findings of a three-state...
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Day 5: Collective Responsibility, Collective Action
Rapporteur: Farheen NahviOn day 5 of the 2022 Prajnya 16 Days Campaign Against Gender Violence, Women in Global Health hosted its third regional town hall on the Prevention of Sexual Exploitation,...
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Day 5: Local Committees, Remote Justice
On the 5th day of the 2022 Prajnya 16 Days Campaign Against Gender Violence, a discussion on "Local Committees, Remote Justice" was organised. In this structured discussion on Local Committees, their...
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A Conversation on Gender Violence against Religious Minorities
On Wednesday, November 30, 2022, the campaign went to Ethiraj College Department of Human Rights. We had invited Bader Sayeed, eminent lawyer, former Tamil Nadu MLA and founder, Roshni (NGO) to...
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Day 7: Responding to Domestic Violence: A Training for Social Work Students
On December 1, 2022, ACR Sudaroli facilitated a workshop on how to recognise and respond to domestic violence. The training workshop was meant for social work students and early career social workers....
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Day 8: Stand in Solidarity or Sit in Silence! Poetry Reading
Images by: Selvaraj On the 8th day of the 2022 Prajnya 16 Days Campaign Against Gender Violence, we partnered with Mockingbirds and InKo Centre and organised a poetry reading. This year, we had...
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Day 8: The Cost of Work: A Research Symposium
On December 2, 2022, Radheshyam Jadhav, journalist and Rajaram Research Fellow, presented his ongoing research project on the web of gender-based violence within which women sugarcane cutters in...
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Day 9: Visual Representations of Gender-Based Violence
On the ninth day of the 2022 Prajnya 16 Days Campaign Against Gender-Based Violence, photographers Vidya Kulkarni and Priyadarshini Ravichandran, aimed to answer the question "What are appropriate ways...
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Day 10: Community Cafe
Rapporteur: Sudaroli RamasamyIt was Sunday evening when I reached the Better World Shelter for Women with Disabilities at Royapettah. The two things lingering in my mind before I started the...
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Day 11: Shutdowns and Domestic Violence Help-Seeking: A research symposium
On December 5, 2022, Rajaram Research Fellow, Arshie Showkat Qureshi presented her ongoing work on the impact of successive shutdowns on the ability of Kashmiri women to access help when they...
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Day 12: Ensuring Access to Reproductive Choice: A Workshop || @drumaram_ram...
Prepared with notes from Dr. S. Shakthi.On the 12th day of the 2022 Prajnya 16 Days Campaign Against Gender Violence, we organised an interactive panel discussion, where Dr. Uma Ram, Dr. Prabha...
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Day 13: Tamil Nadu Domestic Violence Support Services: A Mapping
We are pleased to bring you a new Prajnya resource: the Tamil Nadu Directory of Support Services for Violence Victim-Survivors. This data was compiled for a mapping exercise of the Surviving Violence...
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Day 14: Domestic violence and access to justice: Regional perspectives
On the 14th day of the 2022 Prajnya 16 Days Campaign Against Gender violence, we organised the "Domestic violence and access to justice: regional perspectives" panel discussion. South Asian states have...
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Day 15: Love, Honour and Law: A roundtable on draft legislation on crimes in...
On December 9, 2022, 15th day of the 2022 Prajnya 16 Days Campaign Against Gender Violence hosted an online roundtable discussion on the draft bill on 'Prevention of Crimes in the Name of Honour' that...
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2022 Campaign Report
The 2022 Campaign Report is online! Take a look at the pdf version of the report here.
View ArticlePause. Stop. Go.
As each campaign ends, a dozen times now, a sense of relief takes us over. Exhausted bodies fall ill, desperate to catch a break. Brains wrung dry, oscillate frantically between an optimistic...
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