PaRCha - JNU - Youth for Equality - 2008 ID-72265

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For a Vibrant GSCASH!! .

Sotne Issues and Agenda .

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Friends, 5th Novemebr, 200 Tn the context of falling sex .ratio in India, the increasing number of female foeticide, cases of sexual abuse and violenct a body like Gender Sensit.isation Committee against Sexual harassment of JNU has an extremely significant ant exemplary role to play not only within the limits of rhc campus but ar the national level as well. This body, the first of it: kiods was constiruted jn 1999 on the principles laid by the Visakha vs the State of Rajasthan verdict of the 13th august 1997. Tt was the rcsull of a vibrant struggle launched by progressive and like minded students-teachcrs-karmacharis who compelled the then JNU administratton to acknowledge the fact that the rc5ponsibility of providing an envuonment free of sexual huassment lie~ upon them But it was just the bcgLnning of a bitter battle with the adm.inistrauon and all the reactio nary forces of rhe campus who time and again tried ro tamper with the democratic and autOnomous functiorung of this body. Consequently In the inttiaJ years the GSCASH had to really strive hard to ensure that the complaints of .

sexual harassmt·nt get adc:yuatdy redressed by the reluctant admimstrations and ro save the tnscirutton from attacks like .

Ashok Mathur commlltee that anempted to change the ba~1c dcmocrattc characteristics ofGSCASH. .

Though GSC ~\SJ T has emerged after all thcs shuuld be chrected to ensure ~pcccly and prompt uisbursal of j11c:;Uct: tn orckr to m.ininuse the trauma and d1fficuJry t;,c<.:d by the parties involved. .

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bst11bllshing a group of volunteer~ at the lt:vds o( ~chuol centre ~nd hostel is an imperative ~o that more .tnd m ore students can ~t.lenufy with the hudy and fc.:cl free ro appro:1ch it whcnevC'r 1n nt'ed. This would t:nrich GSACSH \Vlth innovaovc ideas and at the same ume would pro,ide the: bod)' wuh the manpo,ver requued to carry forward the seosmsat:.lon campatgns. .

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Since a lot of efforts of rhc GSCASH members go 111 tnsutunng and completing enquines rhere is a risk of GSCASI I bc·ing reducc.;d to a mere puntl.i\·c body. As mo~r of ~t::w:d harns::;mcnt cases an: a result of absence o f gender cliscour-.es C~(. \ ~11 tlctd.., Lo cxamJJIC Jts senstt:.lsation campatgn and for thar an enqronment or-a lnrgcr 5tudenr bodv 1s necm c1"c~ ()f -.cxual h<tra-;... ment J!'-. L· has been cxpent.'IH:tng ~H1 alarming mcre.t:ie tn inctJcnb of gcndcr vtolc:ncc 11()1 only amur1_~ the m.u:rt<.:d couples but also ,unong 1host.: \' ho ha\ c trm.:rcd mto soml' sort of a rcl.monslup. Tills po:,-,cs... c.·~ ~\ s.criOliS thn.:at ro the gcnd~r sensitive ~tmo~phcrc or our campus fhough a ft.\\ comphunts of rrus nature have been lodged \\1th the GSC \SI I, itts in no posiuon in inv~..:sugatcd m these cases as gender v10lcnce docs nor come under irs purview. I o rhc !Jgbr uf the reccnr Domestic Violence bill passed by the parliament I think th~t an institutional mechanism should be set to curb this extrcnH.: m}ln.ifcsmtion of p~trinrcha.l violence on women. .

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Sd-/ Tanecsba Devi Mohan, .

VOTE! SUPPORT! ELECT! .

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TA ESU ltE\'1 1\\ .

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For the post of students' representative to GSCASH .

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