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NUTT MAHILA MANDAL LEADERS FELICITATED BY STEINEM
Submitted by apneadmin on Fri, 12/04/2009 - 14:07Araria, Bihar: Meena and Fatima Nutt Dhunia, two anti-trafficking leaders and survivors of prostitution, were felicitated by activist and feminist, Gloria Steinem on December 14 at a public rally organized by Apne Aap Women Worldwide in partnership with the National Literacy Mission at the Araria Mahila Mahavidyalaya. Meena and Fatima are President and Vice- President of the Nutt Mahila Mandal in the Uttari Rampur red-light area of Forbesgunge.
“These women have given us the greatest gift –an example of courage – and their search for justice under the most difficult conditions. That means the rest of us can do no less. Justice is contagious and so is injustice. If we don’t follow their example we will suffer too,” saidMs Steinem in her felicitation.
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My World Outside & My Dreams
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I want to be a nurse, in a clean white uniform
Submitted by apneadmin on Fri, 12/04/2009 - 13:45Kamatipura, Mumbai: All I can think of every day is that I want to be a nurse, in a clean white uniform, busy at work in a hospital all day long and live in a decent neighbourhood just like all of you. I know how difficult it will be. I will have to be coached properly. I want to prepare for my class ten exams. I can read and write Marathi quite well and a little English.
The last time I was in a classroom was in my village all those years ago. Once you reach Nagpur it is further from there. We were so desperately poor, we would eat one meal a day every other day. So we were all short tempered and ready to fight each other all the time.
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Reader's Corner, Campaign, & Q&A
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Punish those who profit from our misery
Submitted by apneadmin on Fri, 12/04/2009 - 15:56Araria, Bihar: I think all the people for whom the lives of young girls are sacrificed, must be punished. Anyone connected to the business that profits must be punished. If police starts getting the clients arrested, the others would stop coming. It will force the community to find for alternative livelihood options.
No girl wants to join prostitution of her own will. If it was the case, girls would not be forced into it. They would not need to be beaten mercilessly. They have to put on make up and pretend to be happy.
Just imagine how she must have felt when a person who buys her, beats her up, abuses her? She stops thinking. Ask yourself how would you feel yourself if the same thing happens to you? The people who come and rape the girls go back to their society and nothing happens to them.
I am married into Nutt family. It was a form of trafficking. I ran away twice. I was only seven or eight. Now I am 25 or so. I have decided not to accept it. I am still beaten.
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