A chaotic system of divorce by folk beliefs and text messages may be nearing its end.

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Length: 0:28:44
Uploaded: 19 Mar, 2012

Recording Date: 19 Mar, 2012
Recording Location: Kolkata, West Bengal, India; and Vancouver BC Canada
Logsheet: none
Language: English
Topical for: Timeless
Status: Complete, Ready to Air
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Program Title: WINGS #47-11 Muslim Divorce in India
Description: On December 9, 2010, more than 2000 divorced and destitute Muslim women came out to protest in Kolkata, West Bengal against a system that allows them to be left destitute with their children by a brief oral statement of their husband. As of 2012 a draft codification of Muslim family law is out for public consultation across India.

Host(s): Kalpana Pradhan; additional narration, Frieda Werden
Featured Speakers/Guests: Protesters Nazima Khatoon, Asiyan Bibi, Rukmina Bibi; divorced/separated women Nazima Bibi and Fatema Bibi; Afroza Khatoon. chief of the local West Bengal women's rights organization Rokeya Nari Unnayan Samity; Ayesha Khatoon, of the Muhammed Bazar backward class development society; eminent lawyer and woman activist Chandrayee Alam; Mrs Sunanda Mukherjee, chairperson, West Bengal State Women’s Commission; Muslim educationist and former member of the West Bengal State Women’s Commission, Mrs. Miratun Nahar.

Credits: Produced by Kalpana Pradhan; series producer, Frieda Werden.

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