Understanding Women's Empowerment in South Asia: Perspectives on Entitlements and Violations

ISBN-13: 9789811675379 / Angielski / Twarda / 2024

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Chapter – I: Introduction: Into the Realm of NGO Work for

                   Disempowered South Asian Women

                  Asok Kumar Sarkar and Satyajit Das Gupta

Chapter - II: Panorama of Violence Against Women in Domestic and Public Spheres - Academic Perspectives 

Ishita Mukherjee, Shamita Das Dasgupta & Ruchira Goswami

Chapter – III: Battling for Legal Aid and Empowerment for Poor and Disadvantaged Bangladeshi Women and Girls

Sara Hossain

Chapter – IV: Moving Beyond the “Rescue & Rehabilitation” Narrative of Trafficking and Sex Work in South Asia

Geraldine Forbes, Ruchira Gupta and Paula Banerjee

Chapter – V: Civil Society in Ascendance - NGOs and the Women’s Cause in Nepal

Geeta Pathak Singroula

Chapter – VI: Women’s Organizations and the Central and State Womne’s Commissions in India

Malini Bhattacharya

Chapter – VII: Women’s Interlink – Enhancing Women’s Dignity

Aloka Mitra

Chapter – VIII: NGOs, Development and Gender Justice in North and Eastern India

Tushar Kanjilal, Biswajit Ghosh and Ranjana Kumari

 

O autorze

Satyajit Das Gupta has been associated with Legal Aid Services – West Bengal, Human Rights Law Network, India and the Calcutta University's Women's Studies Research Centre. He has lectured and published widely on problems of domestic violence, women's access to justice and counselling for women in distress.

Asok Kumar Sarkar is Head, Department of Social Work, Visva-Bharati, India and Chairperson of the International Consortium for Social Development -Asia Pacific Branch (ICSDAP). His publications include NGOs-The New Lexicon of Health Care (2005), NGOs and Globalization (Co- Edited, 2008), Human Development and Sustainability: Challenges and Strategies (Co-Edited, 2017), Welfare of Disadvantaged: Exploring Community Development Approach (Co-Edited, 2018), and Contextualizing Peace - Experiences of Contemporary India and Neighbouring Countries (Co- Edited, 2021). He is the founding editor of ‘Journal of Social Work and Social Development’, a UGC-CARE-listed Indian journal and had served from 2010 to 2017.