On 23 January 2013 the South Asia Solidarity Group organised an 'open meeting' at the LSE in London. This urgent meeting was called in response to the brutal rape of Jyoti Singh and subsequent protests across India.
The meeting brought together many compelling and active groups and individuals, who collectively sought to interrogate:
- What are the implications of the protest movement in India and how can we support it?
- What are the changes being demanded at a legal, political and social level?
- How do we resist the colonial and racist responses to these events in Britain?
- What do the Delhi protests mean for struggles against gender violence in Britain and globally? MORE INFO
FREEDOM WITHOUT FEAR was set up in London UK, in solidarity with the anti-rape movement in India. It is an arena for Black, South Asian and 'Minority Ethnic' women to lead discussions on the violence against women and girls; to counter imperialist racist discourse that UK mainstream media bombards us with and; to highlight the co-opting of violence against women and girls issues by various groups who seek to further their own racist/ anti-immigration/ Islamophobic agendas.
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