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About the Conference
The RIGHTS, EMPOWERMENT AND LIBERATION: ASIAN RURAL WOMEN'S CONFERENCE will take place on a vast field in Arakonam, Tamil Nadu, India from MARCH 6-8, 2008.
More than a thousand rural and indigenous women from various sectors of peasants, agricultural workers, fisherfolk, Dalits, pastoralists, informal workers, child labourers and minorities all over Asia will take part in this exciting and momentous conference! Women's organisations, regional networks, public interest groups and support NGOs are also invited to support the activities.
Hosted by the Tamil Nadu Women's Forum (TNWF), the Tamil Nadu Dalit Women's Forum (TNDWF) and the Society of Rural Development (SRED), the conference aims to strengthen the rural and indigenous women's movement and to build the leadership of women from peasant, indigenous, workers, Dalit, fisherfolk, migrants, and pastoralist movements, among others. The conference hopes to provide a venue for building perspectives and a process to evolve and to create unity and solidarity among women and with other movements. It is also an attempt to forge develop new visions and new thinking about feminism, liberation, emancipation and the women's perspective on national liberation and food sovereignty. It is hoped that it would be a venue to discuss, to debate, to brainstorm and to strengthen perspectives, strategies and collective action.
During the 3-day event, there will be speak-outs and testimonies from rural and indigenous women sectors in Asia, symposiums and forums on rural women's issues, organic food festival, film and other cultural presentations from various countries, and other solidarity actions.
Culminating on International Women's Day, the conference will be followed by a 2-hour women's caravan led by rural and indigenous women weaving through streets and fields and a public assembly of 10,000 grassroots women leaders!
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