Women's Day rally for the rights of the disabled

Woman’s Day rally for The Rights of Disabled Women Everyone’s celebrating woman’s day except the disabled women. A woman with disability is doubly disabled. First she is a woman who is discriminated against in society and second is a debilitating disability that hampers everything she does. This Women’s Day, 100 women on wheelchairs in Mumbai, force you to think about these women who are among the most discriminated people in society. Disabled Women are thrown out of flights with impunity (Jeeja Ghosh, 20th Feb, Anjali Agarwal 22nd Feb) Disabled Women are raped every where (A hearing challenged girl gets raped in a Bengal Hospital, 29th Feb) They rarely get married. Disabled Women are not even part of the women’s rights movement across the country. There is no woman with disability in parliament, even in Rajya Sabha. Disabled women are denied the right to motherhood.
On the eve of Woman’s Day on 7th of March 2012, 100 plus women on wheelchairs and hundreds of their supporters - activists, celebrities, parents etc. - will also sit on wheel chairs to express solidarity for women with disability in India. Brought together by the ADAPT Rights Group, Mumbai, they will force Mumbaikars to think – how long will this disability continue, how long will women with disability face apartheid like discrimination?
Will we ever create a society so inclusive that woman with disability will have equal rights like the rest of us? Will we ever have inclusion enough for disabled women to want to celebrate Woman’s Day?
Come join us in making a positive change in society.
Venue: Marine Drive, promenade, Jazz by the Bay
Day, Date & Time: Wednesday, 7th March 2012, 5:00 PM RSVP Bhavana Mukherjee - 09833179394
-- Regards, Mrs. Bhavana Mukherjee
ADAPT (formerly The Spastics Society of India) K.C. Marg, Bandra Reclamation, Bandra (W), Mumbai - 400 050 Tel : 2644 3666/2643 0703 Cell : 9833179394 Website : www.adaptssi.org