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Seeking Justice and Healing in Gujarat
*Seeking justice and healing in Gujarat*
Legal battles and rehabilitation of the victimized post-2002, including women and children
A talk by Prasad Chacko and Meera Rafi
This talk will cover both the legal and rehabilitation work of two human rights activists in Gujarat after the 2002 genocide of Muslims.
Prasad Chacko is the director of Behavioral Science Center (BSC) in Gujarat through which he has been involved with various aspects of the empowerment of marginalized communities, particularly the Dalits, Adivasis and Muslims. Chacko was instrumental in shaping the Citizen’s Initiative which provided humanitarian relief and psycho-social care to the traumatized victims of the 2002 Gujarat riots. He also played a significant role in the establishment of the legal cell in BSC in order to assist the victims and witnesses of the genocide in their effort to secure legal justice.
Meera Rafi is a human rights activist and director of Center for Development (CfD) through which she has been involved with the Muslim and Dalit communities in Gujarat, many of whom are displaced, in working towards communal harmony and peaceful co-existence with the other communities. She works with women affected by domestic violence and is involved with several education initiatives for children.
This event is co-sponsored by
TwoCircles.net : http://twocircles.net/ The South Asian Center : http://southasians.us/
Alliance for Secular and Democratic South Asia : www.southAsiaAlliance.org
Mass Global Action : www.massglobalaction.org
Date: 06/18/2013
Location: MIT-4231
Time: 7:00 pm
Organized By: AID
Contact: events@aidboston.org
Web: https://www.facebook.com/events/276349022508745/
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Directions: 77 Massachusetts Ave Cambridge MA 02139