Gender Workshops in Delhi University colleges
Workshop on Human Rights Awareness in the Educational Institute
Gender Workshops in Delhi University college
The main aim of these workshops is to understand what is perceived as gender concepts by the youth and how they contextualize it in their own lives. This as a process is to educate and increase the awareness of students on gender issues and get to know of their problems to discuss them. More specifically, the program would aim at: gender sensitization of participants, developing gender responsiveness by enabling participants to examine and address gender biases and discrimination within the family, organization and the community, address the queries of the students regarding gender, dwell into the legal matters related to women.

The project has two major components. One is to get the perception of girl students on gender concepts, the way they perceive gender issues in their own lives and how they relate to this understanding in a wider context of outside world. This information is compiled through a structured questionnaire, which will give us an idea about the same. The second component in this program is of capacity building through interactive sessions with girl students. The workshop will involve talk on important gender concepts and women’s movement, clippings of documentaries or films related to the issue, group discussions and legal awareness. Through these workshops we would like to gain perceptions of the learners (their experiences- achievements, constraints) which help to understand their mind set and formulate our further programs accordingly and make the gender component a part of education through these workshops.

Colleges/NGOs/Institutes interested in such workshops are free to contact the women’s unit of Indian Social Institute.
Email : women@isidelhi.org.in

Workshop on Human Rights Awareness in the Educational Institute
ISI is making an effort to promote and strengthen human rights awareness among the students and in this effort ISI is organizing workshop on Human Rights Awareness for the students of Delhi. ISI already conducted a workshop on human rights awareness at Hansraj College ,Kamla Nehru, Miranda House and Indraprastha College in 2007 which was well received and they have requested us to hold similar exposure sessions. ISI is planning to have this workshop in more educational institutions colleges in the future. The Programme in co-ordinated by Mr Ashok Chakravarty,Formerly Senior Director, National Human Rights Commission and Mr Pradyumna Bora, Research Associate, Human Rights and Law Unit, Indian Social Institute.


It is also our endeavour to promote human rights amongst the students. We also welcome other organizations to be a part of this programme so that this workshop could be conducted jointly in the future.

SOCIAL SECURITY
Responding to a prolonged nationwide debate and a growing need for social security for unorganised workers, a group of 14 network organisations working on Labour rights, Dalit rights, Women’s rights, Tribal and marginalized people came together and formed a consortium to pursue their right to social security, to campaign for awareness, to forge alliance with trade unions, people’s movements and other organisations and to put pressure on the government to pass a comprehensive social security law.

The 14 organisations that formed the consortium were: Fedina and Women’s Voice from Bangalore; NAFRE, CEC, NCC-USW, Delhi Forum, NCDHR, HRLN, PWESCR and ISI from Delhi; YUVA from Mumbai, NIWCYD from Nagpur; BIRSA from Ranchi and LAYA from Vishakapatnam. In a meeting, they decided to organise a national convention to deliberate the following issues: ‘Social Security vs Employment Regulation’, ‘Discrimination in Social Security Benefits’, ‘Social Exclusion, Discrimination and Violence based on Caste’, ‘Women and Social Security’, ‘Sexual Harassment, Violence and Gender Discrimination in the Unorganised Sector’, ‘Structure of Social Security Administration’, ‘Social Security Fund — Sources and Methods of Collection’, ‘Need for a Separate Comprehensive Law for Agriculture Workers’, ‘Feasibility of Insurance-based Social Security and Privatisation of Insurance, Alternative Ways as in the ESI Scheme’ and ‘New Economic Reforms and the Unorganised Sector’.

The consortium organised a National Convention on Social Security of Unorganised Workers from 26 to 28 October 2006 in Morbhawan, Nagpur, (Maharashtra )

Subsequently, state-level and regional-level conventions were held between January and March 2007 in Bhopal, Bangalore, Chennai, Guwahati, Umariya, Ranchi and Rajnandgaon. Throughout the country, handouts were distributed and posters were displayed. Local MPs and MLAs were mailed postcards, and signature campaigns were carried out. In many regions, rallies and meetings were organised that protested against the apathy and inaction of the government.

Social Security Now’ is a network of over 500 organisations from all over India working towards the realisation of comprehensive social security and protections for unorganised workers through a central legislation.

The constituents of our network include people’s movements, trade unions, NGOs, farmers’ associations and other organisations and individuals concerned with or working for comprehensive social security for unorganized workers.

For more details u can vist the website socialsecuritynow.org

Email : hrlu@isidelhi.org.in