Dear all
today half page ad of ndtv our girl our child campaign with vedantafor girl child and implementing partner for ngos is pratham, the statement will be sent to pratham and ndtv please endorse organizations , networks and individuals, if you have not please also sign the 2 petitions below if you have not http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/Priyanka_Chopra_WITHDRAW_from_Our_Girls_Our_Pride_Campaign_NDTV_Vedanta_CSR/ and https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/NDTV_Withdraw_Vedanta_as_a_Partner_in_Our_Girls_Our_Pride_Campaign/ STATEMENT BY WOMEN ORGANIZATIONS TO BOYCOTT NDTV VEDANTA'S OUR GIRL OUR PRIDE CAMPAIGN Vedanta Resources have caused massive displacement which has led to the destruction of livelihoods and communities, deepening poverty, unemployment, insecurity and alcoholism - all factors which differentially affect women and girls. These factors also heighten violence against women and girls and leave them vulnerable to trafficking and sexual exploitation. Vedanta has harmed communities not only as a result of displacement and pollution and environmental destruction but also as an employer. In Vedanta's mines both men and women work in deplorable conditions for extremely low wages. Countless children's life chances have been affected by the deaths and serious injuries sustained by their parents who are workers in Vedanta's mines, factories and other processing operations. The Vedanta funded NDTV campaign entitled ‘Our Girls, Our Pride‘, focusing on nutrition, education, health, and female infanticide affecting girl children, is an attempt to do what could only be described as damage control and whitewashing their sins in the guise of 'corporate social responsibility'. Vedanta recently suffered a unanimous defeat by all the 12 village council meetings, which took part in a ground breaking decision not to allow them to take over land for bauxite mining around the Niyamgiri mountains in Orissa. The women of India have been at the forefront of concerted struggles against the company for many years. Vedanta has responded with violent repression. In April this year ten women and two two-year-old children who were with them were picked up by a Vedanta vehicle with police inside it, arrested on false charges, and kept in jail for one month and three days. These women were members of the Land Losers Association - a group who have protested their forced displacement for the refinery with no compensation. A fact finding report, by a team on the ground in Niyamgiri, tells a shocking story of the month long imprisonment of a group of Dalit women and children displaced by Vedanta’s Lanjigarh refinery. The testimonies provide clear evidence of the collusion of Vedanta and police working as one, and show the callous nature of their outright disregard for human rights or basic morality.( http://www.foilvedanta.org/ news/badapada-displaced-women- and-children-imprisoned-for-a- month-by-vedanta-and-police/) How can NDTV justify promoting VEDANTA? The 'Our Girls, Our Pride' campaign is a desperate attempt to distract attention from Vedanta's crimes at a time when it stands exposed across India and internationally. Vedanta's interests are directly opposed to those of India, its people and particularly the girl children from poor communities it claims to be helping. We as the undersigned women organizations, health organizations and activists working on education, gender, health and human rights boycott NDTV's our girl our child campaign. We will not participate until and unless Vedanta is removed as a partner of this campaign! Endorsed by Organizations and Individuals organizations and networks 1. Jagori 2. FAOW 3. FASS 4. Stri Mukti Sanghanthana 5. PWESCR 6. AIPWA 7. Sahiyar 8. INDIVIDUALS 9. Kamayani Bali Mahabal, Mumbai 10. Mini Mathew 11. Jayasree Subramanian,TISS, Hyderabad 12. Munsiari 13. Albertina Almeida, Goa 14. Trupti Shah, r, Gujarat 15. Rina Mukherji 16. Ayesha Kidwai 17. Malika 18. Shreya Ila Anasuya 19. shraddha chickerur 20. Poornima Chikarmane 21. Rohini Hensman, Bombay 22. Vasanth Kannabiran 23. Maati 24. 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