Women Journalists & Maitree: invite you to discuss the Shahbagh Movement

Bengal Network of Women Journalists and Maitree invite you to a discussion on 
the Shahbagh Movement in Bangladesh.

 Shahbagh has caught the imagination of the subcontinent since the youth hit the streets demanding justice. Since February 5, 2013, thousands of ordinary women and men, intellectuals, cultural workers, human rights workers and journalists have lent support to the movement against the war criminals of the Bangladesh Liberation War 1971 calling even for their death.

For more than 42 years, war criminals guilty of genocide in Bangladesh have continued to roam free, some have held senior positions in the government or fled the country. Today, once again people of Bangladesh want to claim the Liberation War as their own war, not one belonging to a single party, the military or a war instigated by India. Since India cannot be insulated from the impact of Shahbagh, what does the movement signify for south Asia as a whole and for Bangladesh in particular?

Speakers: Urmi Rehman is a journalist and a writer. Urmi started her professional career as a journalist with anewspaper in Dhaka, followed by several stints in other media houses.  She later joined the Bengali Section of BBC World Service in London as a Producer-Broadcaster. She has a number of publications to her credit, which include books, both fiction and non-fiction.  

Natasha Ahmad is an independent consultant and researcher and has spent two decades working on a broad range of women’s issues—access to safe contraception, health, violence, trafficking, right to migration, indigenous livelihood options and sex-workers’ rights. She helped draft the Act on Violence against Women (Bangladesh) and the SAARC Convention on Preventing and Combating Trafficking in Women and Children for Prostitution.

When: May 7, 2013

Time: 4.30 pm

Where: Swayam Office 9/2B Deodar Street (close to Allenbery crossing Hazra Rd), Calcutta -19; 

Phone: 24863367 / 3378 / 3357