14 April 2021, 04:30 pm
Gender and Disability
Programme Type
Webcasts

Gender and Disability - POSTPONED

Speakers: Anita Ghai, Professor and Dean, School of Human Studies, Ambedkar University; Mahesh Pannicker, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi; Seema Baquer, LLB, India & BCL, Oxford; Karuna Rajeev, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Lady Shri Ram College University of Delhi; Meenakshi Gopinath, Director, Women in Security, Conflict Management and Peace (WISCOMP)

Facilitator: Seema Kakran, Deputy Director, WISCOMP

The gap between Niti and Nyaya is large for several marginalized groups in India. For one group of individuals this gap is particularly daunting – persons with disability. The invisiblization of persons with disabilities in the public discourse or alternatively merely tokenistic representation is routine. This, despite national laws and international covenants that mandate full and equal participation of persons with disabilities in socio-economic and political processes.
 
The forthcoming WISCOMP dialogue, Gender and Disability seeks to unravel the multiple layers of discrimination and prejudice that conspire to perpetrate individual and structural violence against persons with disabilities in the public and the private spheres. 
 
Recognizing that a sense of ‘agency’ is pivotal to transformation, this dialogue seeks to provide an opportunity to learn from the struggles and triumphs of activists, researchers and institutional leaders who work to create conditions for differently abled people to lead a life of dignity and choice. The dialogue, it is hoped, will raise questions of individual, societal and state responsibility in securing the rights of people with disability, especially women.

(Collaboration: WISCOMP)