08 August – 06 September 2024, Tewa Center, Kathmandu, Nepal BACKGROUND The South Asian Feminist Capacity Building Course on Gender, Sustainable Livelihoods, Human Rights and Peace, also known as the Sangat Month Long Course, is designed to offer clarity on and a greater understanding of concepts related to gender, justice, poverty, sustainable development, peace, democracy,...
Author: Khushi (Khushi Kabir)
Solidarity Statement with Palestine
Sangat – A South Asian Feminist Network | Secretariat | 21 October 2023 Sangat, a feminist network representing women from different countries in South Asia, stands against the genocide that is happening in Gaza. To this day, thousands of innocent civilians have been killed by the aggression carried out by Israeli Occupation Forces. We acknowledge...
25th South Asian Feminist Capacity Building Course on Gender, Sustainable Livelihoods, Human Rights and Peace
BACKGROUND The South Asian Feminist Capacity Building Course on Gender, Sustainable Livelihoods, Human Rights and Peace, also known as the Sangat Month Long Course, is designed to offer clarity on and a greater understanding of concepts related to gender, justice, poverty, sustainable development, peace, democracy, and human rights. The course was founded in 1984. Thus...
On Faith & Feminism: Exploring Questions of Caste & Gender in Religion
By Manmeet Kaur The following is a reflection on Sangat network’s webinar on the issue with panelists Uma Chakravarty, Nalini Nayak and Sowjanya Tamalapakula held on July 25, 2020. The session can be watched here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1W6ryhItkaQRMhE78y4oo4orL4i-cL_0T/view?usp=sharing We’re at a crossroads. Of course as a society, but as individuals too. There are multiple threads which make...
Reflections: A Week at Gender, Sustainable Livelihoods, Human Rights, and Peace Course, organised by SANGAT – The Feminist Network
Author: Nadia Imtiaz Date: 1 – 10 September 2019 I feel lucky and thankful for many things, events and people in my life. After every small disruption, something extraordinary happens, and I am filled with positive energy. Early this year, I was told that alongwith all the other health issues, I am developing cataract in...
Experience at Sangat’s Month Long Feminist Course
When I was leaving for SANGAT course at Nepal in August, many people thought it was going to be more like honeymoon trip and less class and activities. I won’t blame those thoughts, may be most of courses are like that; there you get more fun time than activities. But I knew from the very beginning...
Sangat Course: Personal Reflections
I was sitting alone in my office room. There was a storm going on in my head! Our office circulated a rule to cut a day’s salary if a faculty is 15 minutes late along with other directives in the line of how long one should stay in the office … all these rules ignoring...
Marriage and Sex Work
The Sex Worker’s argument: “We deserve dignity for our work” Counter argument: “But none of you want your daughters to become sex workers” The Sex Worker’s argument: “Housewives don’t want their daughters to become housewives in the future, will you abolish marriage because of that?” This piece and illustration was made by...
How deep are the Roots of Patriarchy?
Illustration by Sara Haas. Sourced from: https://femmagazine.com/about/ Friends! Namaste! Assalam Walekum! Satsriakal! And Hello! First of all we are meeting in a New Year so there is no harm in praying for better days in this New Year. We will all soon come to know how this year will be for our country. All that I...