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...Gitika Srivastava...
...this has made Srivastava one of the most powerful activists in her state. Her organization, People's Movement Against the Oppression of Women, is working on women's rights in Rajasthan, a province in western India still redolent of premodern customs: sandstone palaces, bejeweled maharajas, turbaned men leading camels across the desert. The condition of women there is often wretched. There are just 910 women for every 1,000 men, a result of female feticide and infanticide as well as sheer neglect and malnutrition--and barely 20% of them are literate. Spousal abuse, child marriage and mistreatment of daughters...
...KAVITA SRIVASTAVA...
...Kavita Srivastava, then 30, was a sociologist working in a government-supported program in Rajasthan state devoted to raising awareness among rural women about their legal and social rights. Srivastava, whose previous exposure to rural life had come entirely through train windows, believed she was making real progress toward improving the lives of Indian women--until a brutal act demonstrated how powerful the repressive force of misogyny can be. Bhanwari Devi, a local woman who was working with Srivastava, was gang-raped by upper-caste men after she tried to stop a Brahman child wedding. Though the rape was witnessed...
...Srivastava, who said she is attending summerschool because she just changed her concentrationto French, is working for Phillip Brook's House aswell as attending classes this summer...