Hi,

Under the aegis of Ekal nari Shakti Sangathan, about 5000 women will
walk from Arki to Shimla for 3 days demanding rights of single women.
The march starts on April 1, 2008 and ending in Shimla on 3rd April.

The key demands

• For the older single women, pension policy should be framed on the
model of the existing policy in the neighbouring state of Haryana.
Pensions should be paid every month without fail.
• Those single women who are fighting to secure their rights vis-à-vis
their in-laws' family, their cases must be referred to fast track
courts. Also, the spouses of all the single women who are not paying
the maintenance amount, as decreed by either the gram Panchayats or
the civil courts, should be legally challenged through fast track
courts.
• The State should ensure that two acres of land is granted on a
long-term lease (from government's surplus land pool) to all the
economically weak single women who are capable and eager to work as
self-employed farmers.
• Every single woman should be provided with health care facilities
from the primary to the tertiary level, free of cost.

To know more about this campaign and to support these women please visit

http://www.himvani.com/news/2008/02/19/alert-himachal-single-women-march-for-jus\
tice-contribution-required/1280/activism/himvani/

with regards

Varun Rattan Singh
+91 98160 76772

The Voice of Himachal
http://www.himvani.com

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