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This was the experience of joint political work in an organized women's movement coordinated by MARS since 1942, and the sustained interaction of urban MARS and Communist Party (CP) activists with a devastated rural populace in the relief work and political marches during and after the Bengal famine of 1943.
This society came into being with the name of All Bengal Women's Union and registered under Act XXI of 1860. The All Bengal Women's Union is affiliated to the International Abolitionist Federation, Geneva. [1] On 1 April 1933, the bill was passed. Romola Sinha, the founder member was the first chairperson of Central Social Welfare Board in West ...
Established on 15 February 1992, in Sonagachi, the largest red-light district in Kolkata, West Bengal, India with estimated 11,000 sex workers, Durbar has been working on women's rights and sex workers' rights advocacy, anti-human trafficking and HIV/AIDS prevention.
The West Bengal Commission for Women is a controller board of Department of Women and Child Development and Social Welfare in the Government of West Bengal. It is a women's commission mainly responsible for women development under the administration of the development of women and child and social welfare. [3]
Women's role in pre-colonial social structures reveals that feminism was theorised differently in India than in the West. [9] In India, women's issues first began to be addressed when the state commissioned a report on the status of women [clarification needed] to a group of feminist researchers and activists. The report recognised the fact ...
Dr. Vina Mazumdar (28 March 1927 – 30 May 2013) was an Indian academic, left-wing activist and feminist. A pioneer in women's studies in India, she was a leading figure of the Indian women's movement.
The Department of Women and Child Development and Social Welfare, Government of West Bengal, is responsible for the development of women and child and social welfare in the state of West Bengal. The Department of Women Development and Social Welfare works towards the protection, equity and inclusion of populations that have been historically ...
Women's groups like the Nari Sangbadik Kendra (Women's Journalist Centre) and Mahila Atmaraksha Samiti (Women's Defence Committee) played an important role in the Bengali language movement. [ 1 ] On January 23, 1952, at 4 a.m., Pakistani police surrounded Kashem's residence, where he and others were working on the publication of Sainik , a ...