Reject The Government’s Declaration Of ‘Muslim Women’s Rights Day’

August 2nd, 2021

Awake Goy

There has been a nationwide outpouring of condemnation, following the announcement yesterday by Mr. Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, Minister of Minority Affairs, declaring Aug 1 as ‘Muslim Women’s Rights Day’ to mark the anniversary of the Triple Talaq law.

Over 650 citizens – Muslim and non-Muslim women, men and trans persons, women rights activists, human rights activists, academics, students and hundreds of citizens across from across India have issued a strong statement today.

The statement condemns and rejects this cynical optics of using Muslim women’s rights, in the face of an unprecedented onslaught against the rights of the Muslims in recent years under the present government. It voices strong opposition to declaring 1 August as Muslim Women’s Rights Day, calling it the celebration of a law that is fundamentally anti-minority, anti-women, anti-constitutional, and seeks only to disparage the Muslim community.

The text of the full statement and signatories is given below.

Citizens’ Statement: August 1, 2021

Mr. MUKHTAR ABBAS NAQVI – WE REJECT THE GOVERNMENT’S CYNICAL OPTICS

WE REJECT ‘YOUR’ MUSLIM WOMEN’S RIGHTS DAY

And we say, respectfully, “How dare you!”

This government that has worked to ceaselessly one by one, decimate the constitutional rights of Muslims in India, now has the temerity to declare Muslim Women’s Rights Day on August 1. This, to celebrate its passage of its purportedly Anti-Triple Talaq law (Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Act, 2019), that claimed to protect Muslim women’s rights, but in reality, had a more sinister purpose – to show Muslim men their place in a new India. To tell them that they can be criminalized even in civil matters. The Triple Talaq law was an abomination. It was then, and still is, nothing but a charade. Because no such law was needed to “protect Muslim women, or secure their rights” since the Supreme Court had already struck the Triple Talaq down. So, we voiced our opposition when the law was passed in Parliament in 2019, stating that – “You cannot pretend to save Muslim women while seeking to bring the Muslim community to its knees.” The sentiment is as true today as it was then.

This government has diluted Muslims’ rights to citizenship by enacting the discriminatory Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019 (CAA). The very Muslim women, in whose name you have declared August 1 as a day of “their rights” invited their government, even begged their government, to talk to them when they were out on the streets, protesting the CAA-NPR-NRC, in a desperate bid to save their future, their children’s future, their family’s future, in their own country. You responded to those Muslim women with the utter contempt of silence. Without even the pretence of democratic dialogue.

This government instead mercilessly arrested those who protested the CAA-NRC-NPR under anti-terror laws like UAPA. It jailed Muslim women who dared to take to their streets to protect their rights to citizenship. It has deprived Muslim women of their youthful children, who languish today in jails. It has deprived Muslim women of husbands, who are incarcerated. It has placed in detention centres Muslim women, men, children and transpersons who could not produce “citizenship papers” in Assam.

This government has remained silent as Muslims have been lynched, and its leaders have garlanded the lynchers. The BJP both at the centre and through its state governments, has determinedly “gone after” Muslims under myriad laws, both old, new and proposed – beef bans, anti-conversion, including the recent Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Religious Conversion Ordinance, 2020, and its proposed U.P. Population Control Bill. It has systematically tried to rob Muslims of their right to livelihood, and Muslim women of their agency.

This government has remained silent as men exhorted mobs to rape Muslim women (most recently in Pataudi). It has remained silent, without a single comment, tweet or tear, as Muslim women’s bodies have become the object of “Sulli Deals” by right wing online mobs.

Such a government has no moral right to declare any national day in the name of Muslim women.

We collectively, as citizens of India – Muslim and non-Muslim women, men and trans persons across castes and regions – reject the cynical optics of a “Muslim Women’s Rights Day” by a government intent on reducing all Muslims to second-class citizens.

What we demand is the release of Gulfisha Fatima and Ishrat Jahan, both Muslim women, from unjust incarceration. On behalf of Sabiha Ilyas, a Muslim woman, we demand the release of her son, Umar Khalid from unjust incarceration. On behalf of Nargis Saifi, a Muslim woman, we demand the release of her husband Khalid Saifi from unjust incarceration. On behalf of Afshan Rahim, a Muslim woman, we demand the release of her son, Sharjeel Imam from unjust incarceration. On behalf of Fatima Nafees, a Muslim woman, we ask you to find her son, Najeeb. On behalf of Raihanath Kappan, a Muslim woman, we ask you to release her husband, Siddique Kappan from incarceration. On behalf of Ayesha Sultana, a Muslim woman, charged with sedition for stating that officials must follow Covid protocols in Lakshadweep, we ask you to unconditionally drop all charges. On behalf of Safoora Zargar, a Muslim woman, we ask that she, like all other Muslim activists, lawyers, journalists, students, be freed of the false and malicious cases filed against them by this government. There is a long such list, Mr. Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi.

After you have done that, please then sit with us. With all of us, Muslim and Non-Muslim women, men and transpersons, who believe in our democracy and its promise of equality. And then we can discuss that appropriate day of ‘declaration’ in the future, when Muslim women feel their rights are secure, and they want the whole nation to celebrate their rightful and visible place in this democracy.

We are,

Farah Naqvi	Delhi	Writer & Activist
Syeda Hameed	Delhi	Muslim Women’s Forum
Aruna Roy	Devdoongri, Rajasthan	MKSS
Ayesha Kidwai	Delhi	Professor, JNU
Mohini Giri	New Delhi	Guild of service
Poonam Kaushik	Delhi	General Secretary Pragatisheel Mahila Sangathan Delhi
Hasina Khan	Mumbai	Bebaak Collective
Teesta Setalvad	Mumbai	Independent
Kavita Krishnan	Delhi	AIPWA
Annie Raja	Kerala	National Federation of Indian Women
Subhashini Ali	Kanpur	AIDWA VICE PRESIDENT
Kavita Srivastva	Jaipur	PUCL
Rushda Siddiqui	New Delhi	NFIW
Smita Gupta	New Delhi	Economist and Activist
Chayanika Shah	Mumbai	Forum Against Oppression of Women
Meera Sanghamitra	Hyderabad	National Alliance of People’s Movements (NAPM)
Jayati Ghosh	Northampton	University of Massachusetts at Amherst USA
A.Suneetha	Hyderabad	Women and Transgender Joint Action
Shabnam Hashmi	Delhi	ANHAD
Abha Bhaiyya	Himachal	Jagori Grameen
Meena Saraswathi Seshu	Sangli	Vidhrohi Mahila Manch
Sehba Farooqui	Delhi	AIDWA Delhi
SAHELI Women’s Resource Centre	New Delhi NCR	Feminist activists
Sharifa Siddiqui	Secunderabad	Hyderabad Muslim Women’s Forum
Lara Jesani	Mumbai	People’s Union for Civil Liberties
Arundhati Dhuru	Lucknow	NAPM
Aparna	Delhi	President, National Committee, IFTU
Apeksha Priyadarshini	NEW DELHI	Bhagat Singh Ambedkar Students Organization, JNU
Nivedita Menon	Delhi	JNU
Zoya Hasan	Delhi	Professor Emerita, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Khalida Parveen	Hyderabad	Amoomat Society
Tara Rai	Mumbai	The Feminist Collective
Admiral L Ramdas	Alibag	Former Chief of Naval Staff
Nikhat Fatima	Hyderabad	Journalist, civil rights activist
Navsharan Singh	Noida	Writer and activist
Nisha Biswas	Kolkata	Feminists in Resistance
Prof. Mohan Rao	Bangalore	Jan Swasthya Abhiyan
Anukriti	Delhi	CREA
Anjali Bhardwaj	Delhi	SNS
Amrita Johri	New Delhi	SNS
Apoorvanand	Delhi	Independent
Mariam Dhawale	New Delhi	All India Democratic Women’s Association
M. Maqbool Ahmed	Hyderabad	United Citizens’ Forum
Nandini Sundar	Delhi	Sociologist
Bhasha Singh	Delhi	Journalist
Sayantan Datta	Hyderabad	TheLifeofScience.com
Afreen Fatima	Delhi	Fraternity Movement
Samina Banu	Bangalore	FORWARD TRUST
Armaity Irani	Mumbai	CITU
Fahad Ahmad	Bareilly	TISS, Munbai
Tariq Hasib	Haryana	Independent
NASIM Naik	Navi mumbai	Bebaak Collective
Tashi Choedup	Hyderabad	None
Nasreen Syed	Bangalore	Independent
Mridul	Mumbai	Technology Professional
Rafiul Rahman	Delhi	Activist
Meena Gopal	Mumbai	Forum Against Oppression of Women
Apeksha Vora	Mumbai	Independent
Azra Kidwai	Delhi	Muslim Women’s Forum
Geeta	Pune	Independent
Pushpa Achanta	Bangalore	Women Against Sexual Violence & State Suppression
Syeda Lameeya Parween	Delhi	Independent
Priyadarshini Chitrangada	Kolkata	Independent Gender rights activist
Tasneem Farzana	Bangalore	Independent
Jameela Begum	Mumbai	Independent
Smriti Nevatia	Bombay	Freelance writer/editor
Sahba Syed	Lucknow	Independent
Akash Bhattacharya	Bangalore	Azim Premji University
Farid	Mumbai	Independent
Hamza Shaikh	Mumbai	Student
Chitra	Mumbai	Independent
Rumi Harish	Bangalore	Research consultant
Pawan Dhall	Kolkata	Independent
Nazneen Shaikh	from Dhule	Singal
Sujata Gothoskar	Mumbai	Forum Against Oppression of Women
Yakub Mohammed	Udaipur	Sahayogi NGO
Shabana Diler	Pune	Independent
Kamaxi Bhate	Mumbai	Independent
Humaira	Mumbai	Independent
Shuddhabrata Sengupta	Delhi	Independent
Anam	Delhi	Independent
Ranjana Kanhere	Shahada	Independent
Rakhi Sehgal	New Delhi	Independent
Dr Shahina	Jaipur	Independent
Ghazala Jamil	New Delhi	Jawaharlal Nehru University
Sandhya Gokhale	Mumbai	Forum Against Oppression of Women
D G Mahajan	Mumbai	Independent
Nayla	Hyderabad	Independent
Aawaaz-E-Niswaan	Mumbai	Independent
अविनाश कदम	ठाणे	विद्रोही सांस्कृतिक चळवळ
Syed majid hashmi	Hyderabad	Independent
Meena Godad	Mumbai	Independent
Khatija Khan	Hyderabad	HMWF
Sheikh Khurshid Alam	Kolkata	Knowledge Ocean Foundation
Sadiya Riyaz Shaikh	Mumbai	Socio-poltical Activist
Ammu Abraham	Mumbai	Forum against oppression of women
Maya Krishna Rao	New Delhi	Theatre Artist
Shibili Suhanah	Kasaragod	Independent
Meenal Gupta	Gorakhpur	Independent
Feroz Khan	MUMBAI	Independent
Abdulhafiz Lakhani	Ahmedabad	Editor siyasat dot net Journalist
Shikhar Prakash	Allahabad	Independent
Sheema	Mumbai	Independent
Meghna Chakravorty	Kolkata	Student
Chirashree Das Gupta	New Delhi	Jawaharlal Nehru University
Ijlal	Lucknow	Independent
Bharti	Mumbai	Independent
Jahnvi	Delhi.	Independent
Larissa Pitter	Mumbai	Independent
Sucharita Sen	New Delhi	JNU
Susan Abraham	Mumbai	Lawyer
Rema Kandaramath	Ottapalam, Palakkad	Independent
Peehu Pardeshi	Mumbai	JSA Mumbai
Pratiksha Baxi	Delhi	Academic
Antara Dev Sen	Delhi	Journalist
Dr Mohd Imran Patel	Mumbai	Independent
Damni	New Delhi	Independent
Deepapriya Vishwanathan	Mumbai	Independent
Gayatri Singh	Mumbai	WPC, PUCL
Saba khan	Bhopal	Independent
Sahba Husain	New Delhi	Independent
Moina	Bangalore	FORWARD trust
Muhammad Shamsuddin	Kurnool	Independent
Humera	Koppal	Forward
Shaista Khanam	Riyadh	Affiliate
Freeda Nicholas	Mumbai	Independent
Lubna Parveen	Mumbai	Bebaak Collective
Dr Sabiha khan	Indore	Independent
Avinash Kumar	Delhi	Asst. Professor, JNU
Shaima	Delhi	Independent
Asma	Hyderabad	Academic
Andi	Delhi	Independent
Shals Mahajan	Mumbai	Writer
Musarat Shaikh	Mumbai	Independent
Tinku Khanna	Kolkata	Social Worker
Amir Khan	Delhi	Independent
Nandini Rao	New Delhi	WSS
Afreen Khan	Mumbai	Independent
Anandi Pandey	Lucknow	Independent
Umara	New Delhi	Independent
Vikas Rawal	New Delhi	JNU
Farzana	Bangalore	Forward trust
Angeli Surendran	Pune	Independent
Rubina Mazhar	Hyderabad	Independent
Uzma Azhar	Delhi	Independent
Asrarul H Jeelani	New Delhi	Independent
Simeen Anjum	New Delhi	Independent
Siddharth Jha	Dehradun	JNU student
Shaik Javeed	Hyderabad	Independent
M A Ahmed	Hyderabad	Independent
Sameera Khan	Mumbai	Independent Journalist and Writer
Khairun nisha	Ahmedabad	Independent
Aamir Edresy	Mumbai	President, Association of Muslim Professionals
Sifwa Mak	New Delhi	Jawaharlal Nehru University
Mohammad Aslam Ghazi	Mumbai	President APCR Maharashtra
Avinash Kumar	New Delhi	Independent
Ankita Kohirkar	Mumbai	Independent
Salim Hamza Saboowalla	Mumbai	Social Activist.
Fathima Jaseena M	Kozhikode	Farook Training college
Anuradha Bagadthey	Kolkata	Independent
Rajshree Chandra	Delhi NCR	Delhi University
Surbhi Vatsa	New Delhi	Independent
Dr. Qaiser Shamim	Delhi	Independent
Ambreen Khan	Mumbai	Independent
Shubham	Mumbai	TISS, Mumbai
Nandini Manjrekar	Mumbai	Independent
Koninika Ray	New Delhi	National Federation of Indian Women
Deepali S Ghelani	VADODARA	Independent
Mohd Shafique	Mumbai	Independent
Aman Barde	Mumbai	Independent
Ankita Dhar	New Delhi	Pinjratod
Aman Barde	Mumbai	Independent
Nisha Agrawal	New Delhi	Independent
Amir Rizvi	Mumbai	Independent
Shalini Dhawan	Mumbai	Independent
Aruna Burte	Pune	Independent
Farhan Khan	Ghazipur	Independent
Haridas	Thrissur	Independent
Hadi Zamindar	Thane	Independent
Rizwan Ahmad	Muzaffarpur	Independent
Syed Akhtar Husain	New Delhi	Independent
Hiba Shad	Kannur, kerala	Independent
Nilofer shaikh	Mumbai	Independent
Dr. Maskoor Ahmad Usmani	New Delhi	Former President AMU Students Union, Congress Leader
ABRAR HUSAIN ANSARI	Dhule	Independent
Amita Singh	Bhopal	National Hospital
Samreen	Hyderabad	Independent
Rida Tharana	Bangalore	Independent
Jashodhara Dasgupta	New Delhi	Independent
Shahla Abdul Jabbar	PALAKKAD	Independent
Megha S	Bombay	Independent
SM Suleman	Aurangabad	Independent
Ammu Joseph	Bangalore	Independent writer
Anuradha	Delhi	Independent
Hashir	Calicut	Independent
Mirza Zafar	Jalgaon	Independent
Indu Chandrasekhar	Delhi	Independent
Rhea	Delhi	Ashoka University
Deepti Bharti	Ghaziabad	NFIW
Khan Nazima	Mumbai	Independent
Shahrukh Alam	Delhi	Lawyer
Vasimullah Farooqui	Mumbai	Independent
Khalid Jameel	AMRAVATI	Independent
Chitra	Bhopal	Independent
अजित पाटील	Mumbai	भाकपा (माले) लिबरेशन
Jayapriya Vasudevan	Bangalore	Independent
Najmussaquib	Lucknow	Independet
Mohd Khalid Bhati	Mumbai	Independent
Saratchand C	Delhi	University of Delhi
Shalini Gera	Bilaspur	Lawyer
Vidya Dinker	Mangalore	INSAF
Waheeda Bi Khan	Karwar	Karnatak University P.G.Centre
M.Nadeem	Mumbai	Independent
Hoosen Karim	Essenwood, Furban	Independent
Karthik	Delhi	Independent
Lalita Ramdas	Alibag	Independent
Dr. K M Srinivasa Gowda	Bangalore	Independent
Aleema K E	KOZHIKODE	Independent
Nausheen	Mumbai	Independent
Maryse	Mumbai	Independent
Sayoni Basu	Gurgaon	Independent
Mannika Chopra	New Delhi	Independent
Abdul Razak	Mumbai	Independent
Muhammad Tariq Mirza	Surat	Independent
Eisha Hussain	Delhi	Independent
Ashish Paliwal	Delhi	Independent
Huma ahmed	Delhi	Independent
Mallika Ghosh	Gurgaon	Independent
Samina	New Delhi	Independent
Sajida Momin	Mangalore, Karnataka	Forward Trust
Aakash	Rohtak	Independent
Dr. ZARINA	Kozhikode	Independent
Frazer Mascarenhas	Mumbai	Independent
Arpita Das	New Delhi	Yoda Press
Shafi Gehlot	Mumbai	Independent
Aruna	Haryana	NFIW
Abida Farooqui	Malappuram	Independent
Priya Dharshini	Delhi	Independent
Kaneez Fathima	Hyderabad	Activist
Zeenat Shaukat Ali	Mumbai	Wisdom Foundation
Bonita	Goa	Independent
Mohammad Nazeer	Nagpur	Independent
Anna Philipose	Bangalore	Home Maker
H. C. Kalita	Dibrugarh	Service
Ajitha G S	Bangalore	Editor, Books
Ritambhara Shastri	Delhi	Journalist
Tahir	Bengaluru	Independent
Hiba	Thrissur, Kerala	Independent
Tahseen Alam	Delhi	Independent
Asra Fatima	Delhi	Independent
Amitabha Ray	Delhi	Independent
Anil Bisht	Nainital	Independent
SASWATI GHOSH	Kolkata	WSS_WB
Prabha Pandey	Mumbai	Independent
Saleem Bakas Khan	Mumbai	Independent
Shewli Kumar	Mumbai	Independent
Gulfisha Tanzil Abdul Farooque	Amravati	Independent
Vineeta Bal	Pune	Academic
Manjula Pradeep	Ahmedabad	NCWL
KJ Singh	Mumbai	Independent
Shadab	Muzaffarnagar	Independent
Nupur Basu	Bangalore	Journalist
Parvati Sharma	Delhi	Independent
Faiza Rehman	Meerut	Independent
Debarati Choudhury	Hyderabad	Student/ researcher
Lydith pinto	Mangalore	Independent
Iqra	Haldwani	Independent
Dipta Bhog	New Delhi	Independent Researcher
Waris	MUMBAI	Independent
Muhsina M.	Malappuram	Independent
Amberin memon	Mumbai	Independent
Vasantha Kumari	Delhi	WSS
Dr Mohammad Athar Khan	Allahabad	Independent
Asma Menon	Chennai	Independent
Salih	Kannur	Independent
JANAKI ABRAHAM	DELHI	Teacher
Atiya Zaidi	Delhi	Independent
Femina	Kozhikode	Independent
Johanna Lokhande	Pune	Independent
Titas Ghosh	Delhi	Independent
Uma Chakravarti	delhi	retired teacher
Ayesha	Mysore	Independent
Shamleena Mustafa	Kozhikode	Independent
Himayat ali khan	Hyderabad	Independent
Noora	Kozhikode	Independent
Madhusree Dutta	Mumbai	Filmmaker
Shamleena Mustafa	Kozhikode	Affiliation
Mandira Sen	Kolkats	Director, Stree Samya
Bushra Jahan Begum	Hyderabad	Independent
Ahmed	Mumbai	Independent
Suneeta D	New Delhi	Activist
Prof.Dr.S.M.Haneef	Mumbai	Jogeshwari Education Movement
Tahir	Lucknow	Independent
Swaliha	Mangaluru	CAHS
Ritu Menon	New Delhi	Writer / Pblisher
Zoeb Bootwala	Mumbai	Independent
Ananya Iyer	Noida	Independent
Mohammad Nadeem	Bangalore	Independent
Mohammed Ismail Hulmani	Mumbai	Independent
Nazeer	Dubai	Independent
Vidhya	Delhi	WSS
Musab Mohammad Aslam Ghazi	Mumbai	Independent
Asad Siddiqui	Hyderabad	Independent
Mondira Jaisimha	Hyderabad	Independent
Farooq	Hyderabad	Independent
Amina	Kasargod	independent
Farida Abdulla	Delhi	Independent researcher
Aditi Chowdhury	Kolkata	Citizen Activist
Zulfikar Chandiwala	Mumbai	Independent
Sumit Chowdhury	Kolkata	Documentary Filmmaker
Sagari R Ramdas	Hyderabad	Food Sovereignty Alliance , India
Seema Baquer	Delhi	Independent Consultant
Sidra Ali	Kolkata	Independent
Sadaat	Delhi	Independent
Fathima N V	Areekode	Independent
Kausar sultana	Aurangabad	Independent
Akhileshwari Ramagoud	Secunderabad	Independent Journalist and Academic
Kahkashan	Lucknow	Videographar
Saddaque Hasan	Kolkata	Independent
Khushboo Khan	Delhi	Independent
Punam Sawhney	Mumbai	Independent
Qudasiya K Sayed	Thane, Mumbai	Assistant Professor in History
Rohini Muthuswami	New Delhi	Independent
Shamima perveen	Patna	India
Aisha	Muscat	Independent
Khan Shamim	Mumbai	Bebaak collective
Niloufer Bhagwat	Mumbai	Independent
Shamima Perveen	Bihar	Independent
Yusuf Alam Yunus Alam Siddiqui	Solapur	Independent
Sayeed Anjum	New Delhi	Independent
Javed Anis	Bhopal	Independent
Yousuf Zaheer	New Delhi	Independent
Aaysha	Lucknow	Independent
Bhanu Pratap	Pune	Manuski
Eisha Choudhary	New Delhi	Independent
Maya	Vadodara	Independent
Himanjali	Gurgaon	Independent
Asma Hazir	Mumbai	Independent
Anusheh Hussain	Delhi	Independent
KHALID ANJUM	Delhi	Independent
Suman Parmar	Delhi	Independent
Q Annie Hasan	Hyderabad	Hospital
Vimala.k.s	Bengaluru	AIDWA
Asif Bakshi	Kashmir	Independent
Ahsanulhaq Chisty	Thane	Independent
Mathew S Thomas	Ernakulam	Independent
Sankaranarayanan. K	Gurgaon	Independent
Shamima perveen	Patna	Izad, Patna
Ammara Qaisar	Delhi	Independent
Usman Gani	Mumbai	Independent
Pritha	Mumbai	Independent
Madhu Bhushan	Bangalore	Women’s Rights Activist
Asad Ashraf	Delhi	Journalist
Ms. Husain	Telengana	Independent
Pamela Philipose	Delhi	Independent
Dr.NUZHAT FATIMA	PRAYAGRAJ	Hamidia Girls’ Degree College (University of Allahabad)
Shahnawaz Hussain	Mumbai	Independent
Khaliquzzaman	Nagpur	Jamate Islami
Mohammed Moinuddin	Hyderabad	J.I.H
Shakeel ur Rahman	Patna	Doctor
Shahina Shaikh	KARWAR, Karnataka	Independent
Sheeba Aslam Fehmi	New Delhi	Independent
Veena Shatrugna	Bengaluru	Independent Medical researcher
Ansari Saima	Mumbai	Independent
Subash Masters	New Delhi	Independent
Ridhima	New Delhi	Independent
Masarrath Fatima	Hyderabad	Independent
Mumtaz Shaikh	Mumbai	Mahila Mandal federation
Maha Prasad	Allahabad	Advocate, High Court
Musharraf Taj	Delhi	Independent
DR LUBNA SARWATH	HYDERABAD	SOCIALIST PARTY(INDIA)
Kherunnisa	Nimbahera	House wife
Malek Hashim	Anand	Independent
Shweta Tambe	Mumbai	Platform for Social Justice
Geeta Seshu	Mumbai	Journalist
Syed Saifuddin	Hyderabad	Independent
Susie Tharu	Hyderabad	Independent
Zafar Ahmad	Nagpur	Independent
Deepak Kumar	New Delhi	CSLG, JNU
Khurshid Alam	Mumbai	Independent
Madhavi Bajekal	Bangalore	None
Nidhi	Delhi	Independent
SABIR AMEER	Prayagraj	Affiliation
Faraz Ahmad	Gorakhpur	Independent
Smita	Mumbai	Independent
Dr. Gulrukh Khan	Noida	Independent
Javed Khan	Mumbai	Independent
Farah Batool	Delhi	Independent
Keya Dasgupta	Kolkata	Independent
Jeroo Mulla	Mumbai	Independent
Sachin Shrivastava	Bhopal	Samvidhan live
Neha Trivedi	MUMBAI	Independent
Teena Gill	Delhi	Independent filmmaker
Arshi Mehboob	Noida	Independent
Farrukh S Waris	Mumbai	Independent
Subhendu Dasgupta	Kolkata	Independent
Shaikh Massarat	Solapur	Independent
Suparna Sharma	Gurgaon	Journalist
Khatija Fatima	Hyderabad	Independent
Lakshmi Krishnamurty	Bangalore	Alarippu – retired
Adv. A. R. (Saleem) Yusuf Shaikh	Bhiwandi	Independent
Koel Chatterji	Kolkata	Feminists in Resistance
Adv Payal Gaikwad	Nagpur	Advocate
Gitanjali Joshua	Hyderabad	Researcher
Sandhya Srinivasan	Mumbai	Independent
Richa Jha	Noida	Independent
Hena Ahmad	Noida	Independent
Rehmat Merchant	Bangalore	Independent
Mohammed Shaikh	Mumbai	Independent
D P	New Delhi	Independent
Seema	Bhopal	Independent
Aasha Ramesh	Bengaluru	Independent Women’s Rights Activist/Researcher
Putul Sathe	Thane West	Independent
Deshdeep Dhankhar	Delhi	University of Hyderabad
Lambert Solomon	Curtorim	Independent
RAJEEV KHANNA	Solan	Independent
Advocate Dr Shalu Nigam	NEW DELHI	Independent
Lovita	Mumbai	Independent
Sarojini	Delhi	Independent, Public Health Practitioner
Amrita	Hyderabad	Independent
Ramesh Dixit	Lucknow.	Samvidhan Bachao Desh Bachao Abhiyan, Uttar Pradesh.
Sukla Sen	Mumbai	Peace Activist
Ahtesham ul Haque	New Delhi	Independent
Farook	Mumbai	Independent
Shweta R Rashmi	New Delhi	Takshak Post
Raisa Khatoon	Lucknow	Independent
Goldy M George	Raipur	Dalit Mukti Morcha, Chhattisgarh
Chun kapur	Coonoor	Nil
Asma	Hyderabad	Academic
Rita Manchanda	New Delhi	Human Rights & Peace Scholar Activist
Rizwana	Lucknow	Independent
Ahmed Abdul Gaffar	Hyderabad	Independent
Kehkashan	Lucknow	Independent
Satish Misra	Noida	Independent
Vandana kulkarni	Pune	Independent
Noorin Khan	New Delhi	Independent
Shilpaa Anand	Hyderabad	BITS-Pilani Hyderabad Campus
Imaad	New Delhi	Independent
K.Manjari	Hyderabad	National Alliance of Journalists
Devika singh	Delhi	Independent
Arpita Jaya	Delhi	Researcher
Vimala KS	Bengaluru	Samudaya
Syed Mohd Jamal Mahmood	Aligarh	Independent
Atika	New Delhi	Independent
Abhay Kardeguddi	Pune	Independent
Kalyani Menon Sen	Gurgaon	Independent
Nihal Kumar	New Delhi	Independent
Amiti Sen	Delhi	Independent
Pragati	Mumbai	Independent
TUFAIL A. SIDDIQUI	MUMBAI	Independent
Rashmi Devi	Kanpur	NCWL

Sadhika Tiwari	New Delhi	IndiaSpend
Shivani	Delhi	Independent
Dr. Lamaan Sami	Aligarh	Aligarh Muslim University
Wandana Sonalkar	Navi Mumbai	Independent
Meera Dewan	New Delhi	Independent
Tanvi Jadwani	DELHI	Children’s Art Association/ not-for-profit
Vandana Misra	Lucknow	PUCL
Amitabha Bhattacharya	Delhi	Independent
Vijay Sood	Bangalore	Independent
Anees Ahmad Abdul Aziz Shaikh	Kalyan	Independent
Vani Subramanian	Delhi	Independent Film maker
Gulzar Karishma Malik	Hyderabad	Independent
Khadijah Faruquu	New Delhi	Indipendent
Ashish Varma	Noida	Independent
Sharada Gopal	Dharwad	Independent
Adwait Pednekar	Mumbai	Marxist and Science Movement
Dr Nasser Yusuf	KOZHIKODE	Independent
Farah	Mumbai	Independent
Pakiza Samad	Delhi	Independent
B.Girija	HYDERABAD	Independent
Samina	Ahmedabad	Independent
Umar Khan	Jamshedpur	Independent
Nargis Kausar Ab. Rashid	Nagpur	Independent
T K RAJALAKSHMI	Ghaziabad	Journalist
Rashida Bano Ab. Rashid	Yavatmal	Independent
Manoranjan Mohanty	Delhi	Retd Prof DU
Nazneen Kausar Ab Bari	Amravati	Independent
Maitrayee Chaudhuri	New Delhi	Teacher
Anisha Ahuja	Mumbai	Independent
Preeti Mehra	Delhi	Independent
N S Yamuna	Bengaluru	Independent
Anuradha Banerji	New Delhi	Saheli/Researcher
Zeeshan Khan	Mumba	Independent
Ravinder Goel	Delhi	Independent
Lubna Khan	Mumbai	Independent
SN Hasan	Hyderabad	Independent
Anjum	Sangli	Independent
Maqbool Saleem	Aurangabad	Independent
Najma Rehmani	Delhi	Delhi University
A. N. Srinath	Hyderabad	Independent
Anil Kumar	New Delhi	University of Delhi
Ali Asgar	Kalamnuri	Independent
Mamta Singh	Lucknow		Independent
S. Durga Bhavani	Hyderabad		NA
Neetisha Xalxo	Ranchi		Bahujan Sahitya Sangh
Dr. Abhay Kumar	Delhi		JNU
Mandira Mitra	New Delhi		Independent
Abdul	Hyderabad		Independent
Rajni Palriwala	Delhi		AIDWA
Geeta Thatra	New Delhi		JNU
Geeta Pande	Nainital		Independent
Vibha Puri Das	Dehradun		Independent
Dhanu Swadi	Shimla		Independent
Bittu K R	Sonipat Haryana		THITS, WSS
Yasar khan	Chopda		Independent
Debjani Sengupta	Delhi		IP College, Delhi University
Kirti Singh	Delhi		Lawyer
Nandini	Kolkata		Independent
Gautam Bhattacharya	Delhi		Independent
Md. Khadar Mogudini (Javed)	Rajahmundry		Independent
SHABNAM AKRAM	DELHI		Independent
Farhan ahmed	jamshedpur		Independent
Utpala Mukherjee	New Delhi		Independent
Keval Arora	New Delhi		College teacher
Qamrul Istam Abu	Abu Dhabi		Yes
Virginia Saldanha	Mumbai		Indian Christian Women’s Movement
Arif Shaikh	Mumbai		Independent
Sarfaraz Ahmed Khan	Mumbai		Journalist
Rubina Khaliq	New Delhi		Ngo
Akifa Basri	Ballari		JIH
Fahiza Begum	Hyderabad		Independent
MAHMOOD BHATI	MUMBAI		Independent
Maimoona Mollah	New Delhi		AIDWA Delhi
Prof Zenab Banu	Udaipur		Bohra youth Girls’ wing
Dr Lubna	Hyderabad		Independent
Purnendu	Delhi		Independent
Shoeb Miya Rashid Miya Deshmukh	Yavatmal		Independent
Sabina	Delhi		Independent
Babar Hameed	Delhi		Independent
Anita Rampal	Delhi		Independent
Kazi Hasan Arabi	Sitapur, Uttar Pradesh		Independent
Zubala Marium	Delhi		Independent
Sadhna Arya	Delhi		University of Delhi
Shaheen Afzal Ansari	Mumbai		Independent
Kamal Malhi	CHANDIGARH		Independent
Ayesha Ahmed	New Delhi		Independent
SHAIKH JAVED A	Jalgaon		Independent
Bushra Bhati	Mumbai		Independent
Persis Ginwalla	Ahmedabad		Independent
Sudha	Mumbai		JNU
Haseena P Y	Kollam		Engineer
Bindu	Delhi		Independent
Gazanfer Ali	Udaipur		Independent
Neelam	New Delhi		Independent
Muralidharan	New Delhi		National Platform for the Rights of the Disabled
Mohini Giri	New Delhi		Former Chairperson NCW
Junaid Bhati	Mumbai		Independent
Safia Mehdi	New Delhi		Member, Muslim Women’s Forum
Cedric Prakash	AHMEDABAD INDIA		Human Rights & Peace Activist
Reyaz Ahmed	New Delhi		Muslim Women’s Forum
Malini Ghosr	New Delhi		Independent
Soumya Lamba	New Delhi		Muslim Women’s Forum
Warisha Farasat	Delhi		Advocate
Anjana Mangalagiri	New Delhi		Independent
Kavita Bajeli Datt	New Delhi		Independent
SK Das	Gurgaon		Independent
Zeeba	Mumbai		Independent
Rashida Sayeed	Mumbai		Teacher
Uzma Anjum	NEW DELHI		Independent
Shubham Kumar	Muzaffarpur		Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
Rochita Talukder	Kolkata		Independent
Shakeel Khan	Mumbai		Independent
Sudha	Mumbai		Independent
Shadab Shaheen	Navi Mumbai		Affiliation
Vandana Mahajan	New Delhi		Independent
Sonya J Nair	Thiruvananthapuram		Independent
Dinesh Sahni	New Delhi		Retired
Rafia Khan	New Delhi		Independent
Komala VR	Bengaluru		Independent
Sabina	Chennai		RGS
Alwyn	New Delhi		Independent
Sheba George	Ahmedabad		Independent
Sudha N	Bangalore		Independent
MD.SHARIQUE EHSAN	Kolkata		Independent
Siddhartha Mitra	Delhi		Independent
Kiran Moghe	Pune		Pune Zilha Gharkamgar Sanghatana
Zarin	New Delhi		Independent
Zaara Shaikh	Mumbai		Independent
Joheb Ghori	Jaipur		Independent
Qurratulain	Nagpur		Jamate Islami hind
Satnam Kaur	New Delhi		Saheli
Savita Sharma	Delhi		Saheli
GOPIKANTA GHOSH	KOLKATA		INDEPENDENT
Bilal Khan	Mumbai		GBGBA
Dr. Tarannum Siddiqui	Delhi		Independent
Rupsa Mallik	Gurgaon		Feminist activist
T R Kidwai	New Delhi		Independent
GOPIKANTA GHOSH	KOLKATA		INDEPENDENT
Mamta Singh	Lucknow		Independent
S. Durga Bhavani	Hyderabad		NA
Masood	Hyderabad		Independent
Dr Rukmini Rao	Hyderabad		Social activist
Nazishta	Nagpur		Independent
MOHD AZHAR NUMANI	Siddharth Nagar, UP		Affiliation
Prabir Chatterjee	Kolkata		Independent
Farhan Sayani	Navi Mumbai		AIMIM
Kamayani Bali Mahabal	Mumbai		Jan Swasthya Abhiyan- Mumbai
Afroja khatun	Kolkata		Independent
Kanwaljit Dhillon	Chandigarh		Punjab Women Collective
Mohammed Ajeeb	Bradford uk		Independent
Kachim	Silchar		Independent
Nikhil Dey	Devoongri, Rajasthan		MKSS
Shanker Singh	Dev doongri, Rajasthan		MKSS
Shubhangi Shukla	Dev doongri, Rajasthan		MKSS
Renuka Pamecha	Jaipur		Womens Rahbailiation Group
Mamta Jaitly	Jaipur		Vividha, Women’s Documentation and Resource Centre
Vijay Lakshmi Joshi	Jaipur		PUCL, Jaipur
Tishna Senapaty	Jaipur		PUCL, Rajasthan
Komal Srivastava	Jaipur		BGVS
Sarla Kumari Yadav	Jaipur		PUCL Jaipur
Sister carol	Ajmer		PUCL, Ajmer
Anita Chaudhary	Jaipur		PUCL, Jaipur
Pragnya Joshi	Raniwada, Jalore		PUCL, Rajasthan
Dr. Shikha Kapur	New Delhi		Academic
Tara Ahluwalia	Bhilwara		PUCL, Bhilwara
Lata Singh	Jaipur		PUCL Jaipur
Meeta singh	Jaipur		PUCL Jaipur
Akhil Chaudary	Jaipur		PUCL, Jaipur
Mewa Bharti	Jaipur		Rajasthan Mahila Kamgaar Union
Pushpa Saini	Jaipur		Women’s Rehabilitation Group
Shabnam Aziz	Jaipur		PUCL, Jaipur
Suman Devathiya	Jaipur		Women’s Right to Fight
Meena Gupta	Secunderabad		Independent
Ranjita Biswas	Kolkata		Independent
Kiran Banga	New Delhi		Independent
Dr Surinder Jaipal	Ludhiana		Punjab Women Collective
URVASHI BUTALIA	NEW DELHI		Independent
Muhammad T	Mumbai		Ph.D. candidate
Walter Fernandes	Guwahati		NESRC
M R Kidwai	New Delhi		Independent
Nivedita Jha	Patna		Bihar Mahila Samaj
Nisha Sidhu	Jaipur		NFIW
Meenakshi Bindoriya	Jaipur		NFIW
Isha Sharma	Jaipur		NFIW
Sumitra Chopra	Jaipur		AIDWA
Kusum Saiwal	Jaipur		AIDWA
Seema Jain	Bikaner		AIDWA
Durga Swami	Sri Gangangangar		AIDWA
Chandrakala Verma	Hanumangarh		AIDWA
Neha Meghwal	Jodhpur		AIDWA
Tara Ghayal	Sikar		AIDWA
Raeesa	Alwar		AIDWA
Shrikanta Shrimali	Udaipur		AIDWA
Asis Kumar Das	Dankuni, Hooghly		Social Activist
Irfan Engineer	Mumbai		Institute of Islamic Studies
Sunita Sheel	Pune		Independent
Dipa Sinha	Delhi		Independent
Aysha Khan	Delhi		Right to Food Campaign
Bhanwar Meghwanshi	Bhilwara, Mandal, Bhilwara		PUCL
Madhuri	Badwani, MP		JADS
Anuradha Talwar	West Bengal		PBKMS
Sindhu	Jaipur		Samta Manch
Ashima Roy Chowdhury	New Delhi NCR		Feminist activist
Zaheda Sarwar	Jaunpur,U.P.		Independent
Jaya Sharma	Delhi		Independent
Meenakshi Sanyal	Delhi		Independent
Swapna Banerjee	Delhi		Independent
Sanchita Mukherjee	Delhi		Independent
Suparna	Delhi		Independent