Committee on South Asian Women
The Committee on South Asian Women (COSAW) is a global, grass-roots
network of individuals formed in 1982 to promote awareness and discussion of
issues affecting women in and of
COSAW also occasionally facilitates visits by feminists from South Asia and
organizes and participates in seminars, conferences and workshops (e.g. at the annual
Association for Asian Studies meeting and at the Conference on South Asia,
University of
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SAHELI (Austin) has a new Community Educator, Sonia Ladha
From the Saheli January 2006
Newsletter:
I am happy to introduce myself as the new Community
Educator of SAHELI. I
come to SAHELI with a commitment to decreasing all forms of violence from
our
society and hope to continue and expand upon the wonderful work done
by
this organization during the last 13 years.
My previous non-profit experience includes volunteer
coordination
with Planned Parenthood and community outreach/hotline advocacy with
SafePlace.
I am a recent graduate of a Master's in Sociology, and my
thesis examined the ways in which second generation
Indian-American
women in their 20's reconcile the often conflicting worlds of
their
immigrant parents and the Western world in which they live.
The vision of SAHELI resonates strongly with me and I will
work hard to
create a world in which this vision is realized. By creating
supportive
communities, strengthening community connections, and educating our
communities, we can move away from the social isolation and cultural
barriers faced by immigrants and towards a communal world based on
healthy
relationships. I welcome the
opportunity to be part of this process.
SAHELI
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* http://www.saheli-austin.org Austin, TX 78764-3665
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strengthens and links women's rights groups worldwide.
2005 Grantmaking Highlights
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The first women's group in the Middle East and
led
by women with disabilities, the South Lebanese Society for the Blind,
is
providing support services to rural women, and empowering women with
disabilities through human rights workshops. Indigenous tea plantation
workers are demanding their rights with support from Dooars Jagron in West
Environmental Research & Studies is training rural
women's groups in
sustainable natural resource management. In
of
Rural Women is organizing women's agricultural unions to advocate for
women's economic empowerment and freedom from domestic violence.
The
Crisis Center for Women Help offers anti-trafficking
training to
government workers, police officers and customs officials to protect
the
rights of trafficked women in
Profile of Kalpana Chawla, Indian-American astronaut (NYTimes, Feb. 3, 2003)
Asian American Women: Issues, Concerns, and Responsive Human and Civil Rights Advocacy, by Lora Jo Foo, Ford Foundation, 2002
Announcements of COSAW-sponsored and Other South-Asian Women-related Talks and Events
"Violence Against
Women in the South Asian Community" A
seminar, Chicago, March 2003.
"Women in Islam: Beyond the Images," a talk by Prof. Riffat Hassan,
Association for
Asian Studies Annual Meeting, April 4-7, 2002.
At the 2000
AAS meeting, COSAW organized a Roundtable, "Past (Im)perfect, Present Tense? Problematizing Female Migration in
and of
Roundtable held at annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, March
9-12, 2000, San Diego, CA. Speakers included Jyotsna Vaid (Chair), Shelley Feldman (Cornell University), Rashmi Luthra (University of
Michigan-Dearborn), Sucheta Mazumdar
(Duke University), Karen Leonard (University of Southern California), Dolores
Chew (SAWCC, Montreal) and Ritu Menon
(Kali for Women).
Color
of Violence II - Building a Movement.
Conference sponsored by INCITE! held at the
Institute of Women's Studies Lahore
offers four short courses, a Certificate Course and the Scholars'
Research/Creativity Programme during the period
October-December.
ACTION ALERTS
COSAW would
like to publicize various action alerts issued by groups that would interest
COSAW members. Please send us all relevant information.
COSAW NEWS
January 2006
COSAW has had
a quiet period over the years. Back issues of the COSAW Bulletin have been
digitized and will soon be available for open access viewing at the
COSAW would like to expand its links to be able to provide more resources for
women's groups, students, journalists, creative artists and others seeking
information of various kinds. If you have bibliographies, directories, or your
own webpages that you feel would be of interest to
COSAW clientele, please send us your links for our review.
April 2002
COSAW participated in a follow-up Consultation on
Women's Networks in Multi-religious America, sponsored by the Pluralism
Project and the Women's Public Policy Program at Harvard.
Joint
statement issued on the first anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.
April 2001 and
November 1, 2001
COSAW participated in a Consultation on Women's Networks in Multi-religious
May 1999
An article by Ela Dutt published in the May 28, 1999 issue of India Abroad
profiled the activities of COSAW under the title "Helping Build South
Asian Women's Network."
April 1999
On April 11, 1999, COSAW hosted a reception in
April 1999
COSAW hosted a visit by Eisenhower Exchange Fellow Suriyani
Motik, of
Call for Submissions and Guest Editorships
Volume 10 and Vol. 11 of the COSAW Bulletin are completed but not yet in production. Contributors include Nighat Majid, Radhika Gajjala, Ritu Menon, Sunaina Maira, Radhika Viruru, Amy Laly, Shauna Singh Baldwin, Monica Puri, Urvashi Vaid and others. Creative writing, essays, book and film reviews, interviews, and artwork may be submitted for publication consideration for future issues. We are also seeking guest edited issue proposals. Inquiries and submissions may be sent to J. Vaid, Editor, COSAW at the address below. We also welcome review copies of books at any time.
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