The Last Day of the
Lawyers for Change
National Meet of Social Justice Lawyers
Date: 30th April, 2012
The day got started at 10:00
am with the lectures of the eminent personalities who were invited by the
organizers Center for Social Justice and National Dalit Movement for Justice.
The first person of the day to
deliver the speech is Abusaleh
Shariff, Executive Director, US India Policy Institute.. He says
that India is the one of the largest populated country in the world and we are
the greatest civilized country. In fact the population of our country has
increased 3 fold since independence from 400 million to 1.3 Billion at present.
India is has the largest disparities all over states and there is also regional
disparity, rural and urban disparity all the more the most talked about is now
in terms of Gender disparity. In the context of the developed countries we are
far behind when we see in terms of infant mortality of some state for example
in the states of Assam 80, Bihar 75, and UP 70. The economic disparity to the
citizen are not equal and the rural population are far from developmental
activities yet we talk of the India’s advance with many international airports
rising in number and there are 1000 flights that fly from Delhi every day to
all over the country and outside. That’s why in the actual practice the
citizenship right are not reached to all therefore you as you Lawyers has to
reach out and change the system and utilize the Constitutional rights to ensure
justice to all the citizens of the country.
Ms Veena Gawda is a practicing
Advocate in the Bombay High Court as a Feminist lawyer and she has kept her speech
on the challenges and learning in her experience of lawyering as feminist and
she has strong determination to provide and ensure any right for the women
whatever may by use of law all through. This is a very challenging by choice of
profession as a lawyer in our Indian society today and being in the very high
cosmopolitan. So I urge the young lawyers to take up as the challenge for the
cause of justice for the people of our country specially for the women.
Mr. Amitabh Behar Executive Director,
National Foundation for India. He has spoken on the understanding planning process
for advocacy. It is very important for the advocates to understand and take
part in the grassroot level right from the village gram sabhas to the district
level and then bring impact to the approach paper in front of the planning
commission of India. As in the process of decentralize planning it could of
immense help.
Mr. Arvind Narrain, Founder of Alternative Law Forum has kept his speech on the
Rights of Sexual minorities. He has spoken on the experience and the
humiliation and the importance of the impulse for the activism as lawyers need
to this desperate contrast to fight for humiliation and injustice in the
communities. The provision of law needs political intervention. The notion of
morality is the constitutional morality; the collective of lawyers can be the
group for change as social lawyers for change. And assist the community workers
who are the better crisis response team.
Wajahat Habibullah:
Chairperson, National Commission for Minorities. India
How I feel as lawyers and the
effort in nation building and India a one nation with the multiplicity and our
nation has economic and cultural and in many way feeling of integrity and
originated and because of the trade integrated of the community and the unit
integrated is the Panchayat and the infrastructure and the social and economic
and social security. We are building out of this integrated desperate force and
the military effort and the motivation from Akbar was to integrate the dynasty
and Ashoka a philosophic..
The SC court found in India
that all are the minority and whom do we decide the minority and the SC says In
terms of the constitutional rights value will be the minority and this is where
the question comes from the incidents of Muslims in Gujurat and this is the
question whether the muslims of that state enjoyed the right to life and many
lives are taken away in the hands of Indians in the name of the religion ..
Can a country like India its
origin with the birth of diverse religion and that is what we see in terms of
internally dispersed persons..who have the whole community internal disparities
and as example in fact the Kashmiri Pandits …the bulk of the community are
internally displaced. .in the state of Haryana did not go back to their homes
and as the Christians of Kandhamal did not get back to their homes. Deprived
from schools, hospitals, and jobs etc.
When the justice is denied to
the vulnerable there is where lawyers are to be there and fight in groups as
lawyers for justice.
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