Some of the recent initiatives that have contributed to advocacy for women’s rights are:

• Presentation of a paper on Violence against Women in India: Suffering Continues Despite Progress All Over at the International Conference on Social Welfare organised in 2002 in The Hague in The Netherlands by the director. The paper concluded that violence against women was endemic in India because women were highly vulnerable owing to poor quality of life indicated by rampant poverty, lack of education, high under five mortality, poor health status, high fertility rate and high maternal mortality rate. Also contributing to the violence against women was societal mindset about women that had not changed much.
• Participation by the director in an international conference on prevention of violence against women. Representatives from 13 countries of the world attended this conference organised in 1999 by Braunbraud, a network organisation based in The Netherlands.
• Participation by the programme coordinator of the Women Empowerment Unit in a National Workshop on Human Rights in New Delhi between June 26 and 28, 2002. She shared experience of the organisation in reaching relief to the victims of violence. She along with two more persons participated in a Workshop on Gender Bias and Women Empowerment at Dehradun from June 18 to 23, 2002. In this workshop the participants shared their experiences with other participants.
• Workshop with media persons in Dehradun in 2003 to sensitise them with women related issues, particularly violence against women.

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