Behind the Northeast Veil : Womens rights, customary laws & Gender justice a talk by Ms. Rosemary Dzuvichu at Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 5 PM on 14th March 2014. Time : 5:00 pm onwards Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis) Place : Seminar Room, Library Building, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi - 110011 Venue Info : Events | About | Map | Nearest Metro Station - Race Course(Yellow Line) Event Description : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to a Public Lecture on ‘Behind the Northeast Veil: Women’s rights, customary laws and gender justice’ (in the ‘Interrogating Social Justice’ series) by Ms. Rosemary Dzuvichu, Nagaland University, Nagaland. Abstract : For Naga women living behind the Northeast veil, their marginalization and discrimination continues despite international conventions for protection of women’s rights and constitutional provisions. The decades of armed conflict and militancy of the sixty odd years has made women its biggest victims of violence. The rigid patriarchal structures of the Naga society and exclusion of women and customary laws that discriminate women has evolved a systemic structure of inequality. Women’s access to health, education, livelihood and decision making and their position in society is strongly linked to customary practices and the patriarchal mindset. The movement by Naga women for their rights and justice and the paradox of being caught in the web of constitutional provisions that guarantee these rights and customary practices and a strident community that negates and questions women’s right to peace and security and the immense contribution to peace building, peace making and peace keeping by Naga women over the years. However, their exclusion from ongoing peace negotiations and absence of women’s issues in political negotiations of peace raises serious concerns of gender justice and the future of Naga women. Speaker : Ms. Rosemary Dzuvichu teaches in the Central University of Nagaland and was Co-ordinator, Centre for Mass Communication. She is an alumni of the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) of the US Government to the USA on American Studies and the Thomson Foundation Fellowship on Conflict Resolution to the United Kingdom. She was an Expert Member on Women Studies with the University Grants Commission and the NCW, New Delhi and former Advisory Board member of South Asian Peace and Conflict Studies and former Vice President, Federation of Central University Teachers Association. She was a former co-convenor of the Naga Peoples Movement for Human Rights. She is the President, Nagaland University Teachers Association and Advisor of the Naga Mothers Association. She is also Director, Indigenous Women Resource Centre and Co-ordinator, Human Rights Law Network, Nagaland Chapter, The Charter President as well as the present President, Rotary Club of Kohima. She is the co-convenor of the JACWR and petitioner of the Naga women’s case on municipal elections and customary laws and women’s constitutional rights, which is listed for final hearing in the Supreme Court of India. She is also an Expert member with the NCW for the second tenure for empowerment of Northeast women. Ms. Dzuvichu is also a GB member of the Indo Global Social Service Society (IGSS) and the National Centre for Advocacy Studies.
Posted on: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 06:55:38 +0000
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