Life and death in India-occupied India

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Length: 0:28:45
Uploaded: 19 Jul, 2015

Recording Date: 19 Jul, 2015
Recording Location: The Hague, Montreal, Denman Island
Logsheet: none
Language: English
Topical for: Timeless
Status: Complete, Ready to Air
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WINGS #13-15 Women Gun Survivors by Rose Marie Whalley, Laura Yaros, and WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
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Program Title: WINGS #13-15 Women Gun Survivors
Description: A form of martial law has existed in the far Northeast of India ever since 1949, when the kingdoms there were forced to join India. Women who have suffered directly and indirectly from gun violence are organized to try to keep things calm and seek justice, and call for real participation in democracy, including decisions on resource exploitation.

Host(s): Rosemary Whalley
Featured Speakers/Guests: Binalakshmi Nepram, founder of Women Gun Survivors, in the Indian state of Manipur, author of three books on India and militarism, and recipient of a the Dalai Lama Foundation's WISCOMP Scholar of Peace Award, for work on women and peace.

Credits: Interview by Rosemary Whalley, editing by Laura Yaros, producers of Matrix at CINQ-FM in Montreal. Series producer, Frieda Werden.

Comments: Interview recorded at the WILPF Women Stop War conference in April 2015 in The Hague.