The South Asian Women’s Day is a creation of the Sangat network and one of its biggest celebrations to engage women with and mark their role in peace, justice, human rights and democracy. The day has been celebrated started in 2002. Like for most of its campaigns, Sangat works with various other civil society organisations in India and the South Asian region for the South Asian Women’s Day. The significance of the day in India could not be emphasized more in the aftermath of the increasing violence in South Asia in the last few years. Men and women collected in many cities and towns of South Asia (India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka) to light candles at the same time in the evening to express solidarity with the people of the region, and demand democracy and peace. tions to engage women with and mark their role in peace, justice, human rights and democracy. The day has been celebrated started in 2002.
