HALF THE WORLD HALF THE POWER WE STAND FOR CLEAN AND GREEN POLITICS SOUTH ASIA NETWORK FOR WOMEN IN POLITICS (SANWIP)

The South Asia Coordination Committee on Political Empowerment of Women is a South Asian network of Women formed with the goal of sharing, discussing, articulating, drawing out plan of action and adopting strategies to achieve gender equality in political decision- making institutions at all levels. The group will work as a force in the region, representing women from Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Srilanka.

Our Pledge
We, the women of South Asia, while maintaining faith in democratic principles, endeavor to attain gender equality and integrate feminist perspective in politics. We aim to do this by tackling obstacles to women's political empowerment.

Our Goals:

We Strive

• For clean and green politics.
• For women's empowerment through participator democracy.
• For nation-building on the basis of sustainable development.
• For human rights and social justice.
• Against gender discrimination and harassment of women.
• Against illiteracy, unemployment, poverty and inequality.
• Against corruption, communalism, casteism and regionalism criminalisation in politics, violence and war.
  For a new political culture based upon compassion and cooperation.
• For South Asian Regional Harmony and a humane world system.

Country Contacts

Secretariat of SACPEW

Ranjana Kumari/Kamla Nath
Centre for Social Research
2, Institutional Area, Nelson Mandela Road,
Vasant Kunj, New Delhi -110070, India
Tel. 91-11-6899998
E-mail :csr@giasdl01.vsnl.net.in

Nepal Chapter

urga Ghimire/Prativa Subedi
Agroforestry,
Basic Health and Cooperatives(ABC/Nepal),
P.O. Box 5135, Dilli Bazar, Kathmandu.
Tel. 413934(Off.) 227623(R)
Fax : 977-1-227372.

Bangladesh Chapter

Ishrat Shamim
Dept. of Sociology, University of Dhaka,
92 New Eskaton Road,
Dhaka - 1000
Tel : 880-2-500352 (O) 408512 (R)
Fax : 92-51-823421

Sri Lanka Chapter

Selvi Thiruchandran, -WERC
32,8th Lane, Colpetty,Colombo -5,
Sri Lanka
Tel. 583725(R), 582798
Fax: 94-1-581183

Bhutan Chapter

Kunzang C.Namgyel
Saarc Division,
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Thimpu,
Bhutan
Tel :22473 (O), 00975 (R),
Fax:23240

Pakistan Chapter

Kause S.Khan
Shirkat Gah, 1-Bath Island Road,
Karachi -75530, Pakistan,
Tel : 534101-2-3
Fax :92-51-823421

Maldives Chapter

Alisha Saleem/Guraisha Ismail

INDIA

Southern Regional Conference
Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala (29-30 July, 1994)

District Level Conference
Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh (25 September 1994)

National Consultation on Women in gross-root democracy
New Delhi (29 September 1994 )

North-Eastern Regional Conference
Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh (12-13 October 1994)

Eastern Regional Conferece
Patna, Bihar (26-27 November 1994 )

Western Regional Conference
Pune, Maharashtra (16-18 December 1994)

Northern Regional Conference
Jaipur, Rajasthan (22-23 December 1994 )

National Conference
New Delhi 6-7 February 1995

SOUTH ASIAN CONFERENCES

South Asia Womens Caucus
Manikganj, Koitta, Bangladesh , South Asia (1-3 December 1994)

Coordination Committee Meeting on Political Empowerment of Women: A South Asia Voice, New Delhi (28-29 April 1995)

Towards Equal Political Power:South Asia Women's Voice
Kathmandu, Nepal (2-4 August 1995)

IN BEIJING

Second South Asia Women's Congress on Political Empowerment (2-3 November 1995)

Towards Equality: South Asia Women's Voice (4 November 1995 )

Human Chain Consisting of 500 + Women from South Asia to demand equality in political decision- making in the Region (5 November 1995)

Global Congress on Women in Politics 6 November 1995