Announcing Aurat Bandh
26th December 2012
From 1947 to 2012, India
has seen many a Bharat Bandh, Gujjar Bandh, Maharashtra Bandh etc. etc and we’ve
all seen innumerable times the mechanics of these bandhs and how they do NOT
function.
A woman gets gang raped in a
moving bus and the country stands spineless. What do we as women get to hear –
“Don’t step out of the house, don’t go anywhere unaccompanied, don’t wear
revealing clothes – in short they would prefer if we would stop living.”
Since the government of this
nation fails us yet again, it is now time to take matters into our own hands.
45% of our Corporate
Workforce are women. If we come together and boycott all work for day, at home
or in the office - we can bring the country to a standstill and force society
to finally recognize our rights and appreciate us.
It's time we stand up for our
rights and security.
This call goes out to ALL the
women in the nation for an AURAT BANDH to pledge our solidarity to the
innumerable women being victimized simply for being women.
Let us not do any work for
one day and let's see how the society manages to function.
Also one would like to
clarify that this isn’t about women staying at home to be safe. On the
contrary, it is about how much women contribute economically and sociologically
to a society.
The
aim is for men to see the least amount of women on the streets, in offices and
all other familiar places not doing the things they are used too.
This is all about the power
women have in any given social economical situation.
Aurat Bandh is about telling
one and all that while we cannot function without a safe environment, repeatedly
being victimized for being women; even an economy and society cannot function
without our contribution.
Not Bharat Bandh but an Aurat Bandh on December
26, 2012.
For
Further information:
Noor Enayat
