National Women's Front
| Formation | 2009 |
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President
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Zainaba AS |
| Mission | Women empowerment |
| Website | www |
The National Women's Front was formed in 2009 with the stated objective of empowerment of women of India. "After 6 decades of Independence, the world's largest democracy still has women marginalized and oppressed". The NWF strives to create a platform for Indian women to stand up against injustice and fight for their rights.
In 2014, the NWF Delhi State unit had converged International Women's Day celebration with their nationwide campaign “Women Representation – The Power to Empower”. In November of the same year, the NWF organised a conference ‘Awakening’ to debate issues concerning Indian women at Coimbatore. On the eve of the conference, an expo on women’s rights and issues was inaugurated by Popular Front of India state president A.S.Ismail. Graphic illustrations of domestic violence, rape, female foeticide and riots victims have been presented at the expo. On September 2013 National Women's Front organized the national campaign Right to Hijab across the country to create awareness about hijab and also promote the right to cultural identity Under the garb of preventing terrorism, extremism, and Maoism, law enforcement targets minorities, dalits, and tribals by taking them into illegal custody, keeping them in jail, and even killing them in fake encounters. None of the political parties took a principled stand against this injustice. But NWF conducted a campaign related to human rights and legal awareness in various state along the nation. The Kerala State committee of National Women's Front organized a campaign against the Uniform Civil Code,as a part of national level of initiative to create awareness of the treat posed by the Code to the cultural diversity of India They termed the Uniform Civil Code 'anti-national' as it eliminate the diversity of different communities ultimately destroying Indian Nationalism According to them it is a manifestation of anti-muslim and anti-dalit tendencies of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
Irom Sharmila has been fasting since 2000 demanding the withdrawal of Armed Forces Special Powers Act(AFSPA) imposed in Manipur.The arrest of Irom Chanu Sharmila, after the release order from the Imphal Sessions Court was condemned by the NWF national secretariat members who gathered a meeting in their headquarters. When Irom Sharmila gave an end to her 16 long year fast which is the first longest hunger strike to enter politics,she received a negative responses from the people of Manipur itself. But NWF appreciated her hoping that people do as well accept and support her decision in this cause like they always have been doing
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