Muslim divorce by voice or text no closer to ending

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Length: 0:28:44
Uploaded: 21 Jul, 2013

Recording Date: 19 Jul, 2013
Recording Location: Kolkata, West Bengal, and Delhi, India; Vancouver BC Canada
Logsheet: none
Language: English
Topical for: Timeless
Status: Complete, Ready to Air
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Program Title: WINGS #13-13 Oral Divorce in India
Description: Documentary: During the past three years, Muslim women in India have held protests against a system that allows them to be left destitute with their children by a brief oral statement (or even a text message) from their husband. A draft codification of Muslim family law has gone nowhere.

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.

Comments: Updated from WINGS #47-11