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Awag - Ahmedabad Women's Action Group
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Awag Kunj Building, Nishant Appratment, Bhudarpura Village,Ambavadi,Ahmedabad,Gujarat-380015
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We founded the Ahmedabad Women’s Action Group - AWAG in 1981. In 1983 AWAG was registered as a society under the Societies Registration Act, 1860 (no. Guj. / 970 / Ahmedabad) and then as a public trust under the Bombay Public Trusts Act, 1950 (no. F/946/Ahmedabad). Since AWAG’s inception we have been dedicated to women’s empowerment through helping them fight for basic human rights, which are often denied to women.
Domestic violence against women in India and their demeaning portrayal through mass media were neither seen as derogatory to the dignity of women nor as a violation of women’s human rights, but were trivialised. Consequently, cases of violence were either unreported or underreported.
We began with a study of domestic violence towards women in 1985, which led to a re-evaluation of the criminal justice system in Gujarat in 1995. We sought to make women aware of their human rights, to say no to violence! Having been encouraged to report any incidents of violence to the police, many women complained that these were not responded to.
We undertook the task of sensitising the police force of Gujarat, to the plight of these women
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