STATEMENT BY WOMEN’S AND PROGRESSIVE GROUPS AND INDIVIDUALS
CONDEMNING SEXUAL VIOLENCE AND OPPOSING DEATH PENALTY
On 16 December, 2012, a 23-year old woman and her friend hailed a bus at a crossing
in South Delhi. In the bus, they were both brutally attacked by a group of men who
claimed to be out on a ‘joy-ride’. The woman was gang raped and the man beaten up;
after several hours, they were both stripped and dumped on the road. While the young
woman is still in hospital, bravely battling for her life, her friend has been discharged and
is helping identify the men responsible for the heinous crime.
We, the undersigned, women’s, students’ and progressive groups and concerned citizens
from around the country, are outraged at this incident and, in very strong terms,
condemn her gang rape and the physical and sexual assault.
As our protests spill over to the streets all across the country, our demands for justice
are strengthened by knowing that there are countless others who share this anger. We
assert that rape and other forms of sexual violence are not just a women's issue, but a
political one that should concern every citizen. We strongly demand that justice is done
in this and all other cases and the perpetrators are punished.
This incident is not an isolated one; sexual assault occurs with frightening regularity in
this country. Adivasi and dalit women and those working in the unorganised sector,
women with disabilities, hijras, kothis, trans people and sex workers are especially
targeted with impunity - it is well known that the complaints of sexual assault they file
are simply disregarded. We urge that the wheels of justice turn not only to incidents
such as the Delhi bus case, but to the epidemic of sexual violence that threatens all of
us. We need to evolve punishments that act as true deterrents to the very large number
of men who commit these crimes. Our stance is not anti-punishment but against the
State executing the death penalty. The fact that cases of rape have a conviction rate of
as low as 26% shows that perpetrators of sexual violence enjoy a high degree of
impunity, including being freed of charges.
Silent witnesses to everyday forms of sexual assault such as leering, groping, passing
comments, stalking and whistling are equally responsible for rape being embedded in our
culture and hence being so prevalent today. We, therefore, also condemn the culture of
silence and tolerance for sexual assault and the culture of valorising this kind of violence.
We also reject voices that are ready to imprison and control women and girls under the
garb of ‘safety’, instead of ensuring their freedom as equal participants in society and
their right to a life free of perpetual threats of sexual assault, both inside and outside
their homes.
In cases (like this) which have lead to a huge public outcry all across the country, and
where the perpetrators have been caught, we hope that justice will be speedily served
and they will be convicted for the ghastly acts that they have committed. However, our
vision of this justice does not include death penalty, which is neither a deterrent nor an
effective or ethical response to these acts of sexual violence. We are opposed to it for
the following reasons:
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1. We recognise that every human being has a right to life. Our rage cannot give way to
what are, in no uncertain terms, new cycles of violence. We refuse to deem
‘legitimate’ any act of violence that would give the State the right to take life in our
names. Justice meted by the State cannot bypass complex socio-political questions of
violence against women by punishing rapists by death. Death penalty is often used to
distract attention away from the real issue – it changes nothing but becomes a tool in
the hands of the State to further exert its power over its citizens. A huge set of
changes are required in the system to end the widespread and daily culture of rape.
2. There is no evidence to suggest that the death penalty acts as a deterrent to rape.
Available data shows that there is a low rate of conviction in rape cases and a strong
possibility that the death penalty would lower this conviction rate even further as it is
awarded only under the ‘rarest of rare’ circumstances. The most important factor
that can act as a deterrent is the certainty of punishment, rather than the severity of
its form.
3. As seen in countries like the US, men from minority communities make up a
disproportionate number of death row inmates. In the context of India, a review of
crimes that warrant capital punishment reveals the discriminatory way in which such
laws are selectively and arbitrarily applied to disadvantaged communities, religious
and ethnic minorities. This is a real and major concern, as the possibility of
differential consequences for the same crime is injustice in itself.
4. The logic of awarding death penalty to rapists is based on the belief that rape is a
fate worse than death. Patriarchal notions of ‘honour’ lead us to believe that rape is
the worst thing that can happen to a woman. There is a need to strongly challenge
this stereotype of the ‘destroyed’ woman who loses her honour and who has no place
in society after she’s been sexually assaulted. We believe that rape is tool of
patriarchy, an act of violence, and has nothing to do with morality, character or
behaviour.
5. An overwhelming number of women are sexually assaulted by people known to them,
and often include near or distant family, friends and partners. Who will be able to
face the psychological and social trauma of having reported against their own
relatives? Would marital rape (currently not recognised by law), even conceptually,
ever be looked at through the same retributive prism?
6. The State often reserves for itself the ‘right to kill’ -- through the armed forces, the
paramilitary and the police. We cannot forget the torture, rape and murder of
Thangjam Manorama by the Assam Rifles in Manipur in 2004 or the abduction, gang
rape and murder of Neelofar and Aasiya of Shopian (Kashmir) in 2009. Giving more
powers to the State, whether arming the police and giving them the right to shoot at
sight or awarding capital punishment, is not a viable solution to lessen the incidence
of crime.
Furthermore, with death penalty at stake, the ‘guardians of the law’ will make sure
that no complaints against them get registered and they will go to any length to
make sure that justice does not see the light of day. The ordeal of Soni Sori, who had
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been tortured in police custody last year, still continues her fight from inside a prison
in Chattisgarh, in spite of widespread publicity around her torture.
7. As we know, in cases of sexual assault where the perpetrator is in a position of power
(such as in cases of custodial rape or caste and communal violence), conviction is
notoriously difficult. The death penalty, for reasons that have already been
mentioned, would make conviction next to impossible.
We, the undersigned, demand the following:

Greater dignity, equality, autonomy and rights for women and girls from a society
that should stop questioning and policing their actions at every step.
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Immediate relief in terms of legal, medical, financial and psychological assistance and
long-term rehabilitation measures must be provided to survivors of sexual assault.
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Provision of improved infrastructure to make cities safer for women, including well-lit
pavements and bus stops, help lines and emergency services.
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Effective registration, monitoring and regulation of transport services (whether
public, private or contractual) to make them safe, accessible and available to all.

Compulsory courses within the training curriculum on gender sensitisation for all
personnel employed and engaged by the State in its various institutions, including
the police.
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That the police do its duty to ensure that public spaces are free from harassment,
molestation and assault. This means that they themselves have to stop sexually
assaulting women who come to make complaints. They have to register all FIRs and
attend to complaints. CCTV cameras should be set up in all police stations and swift
action must be taken against errant police personnel.
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Immediate setting up of fast track courts for rape and other forms of sexual violence
all across the country. State governments should operationalise their creation on a
priority basis. Sentencing should be done within a period of six months.
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The National Commission for Women has time and again proved itself to be an
institution that works against the interests of women. NCW’s inability to fulfil its
mandate of addressing issues of violence against women, the problematic nature of
the statements made by the Chairperson and its sheer inertia in many serious
situations warrants that the NCW role be reviewed and audited as soon as possible.
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The State acknowledges the reality of custodial violence against women in many
parts of the country, especially in Kashmir, North-East and Chhattisgarh. There are
several pending cases and immediate action should be taken by the government to
punish the guilty and to ensure that these incidents of violence are not allowed to be
repeated.
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Regarding the Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill 2012, women’s groups have already
submitted detailed recommendations to the Home Ministry. We strongly underline
that the Bill must not be passed in its current form because of its many serious
loopholes and lacuna. Some points:
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There has been no amendment to the flawed definition of consent under Sec
375IPC and this has worked against the interest of justice for women.
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The formulation of the crime of sexual assault as gender neutral makes the
identity of the perpetrator/accused also gender neutral. We demand that the
definition of perpetrator be gender-specific and limited to men. Sexual violence
also targets transgender people and legal reform must address this.
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In its current form, the Bill does not recognise the structural and graded nature of
sexual assault, based on concepts of hurt, harm, injury, humiliation and
degradation. The Bill also does not use well-established categories of sexual
assault, aggravated sexual assault and sexual offences.
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It does not mention sexual assault by security forces as a specific category of
aggravated sexual assault. We strongly recommend the inclusion of perpetration
of sexual assault by security forces under Sec 376(2).
Date: 05/01/2012
Endorsed by the following groups and individuals:
1. Citizens' Collective against Sexual Assault
(CCSA)
2. Purnima, Nirantar, New Delhi
3. Sandhya Gokhale, Forum Against
Oppression of Women, Bombay
4. Deepti, Saheli, Delhi
5. Mary John, Centre for Women's
Development Studies (CWDS), New Delhi
6. Jagori, Delhi
7. Vimochana, Bangalore
8. Lokesh, Stree Mukti Sanghathan, Delhi
9. Madhya Pradesh Mahila Manch
10. Maitreyi Gupta, Lawyers Collective, New
Delhi
11. Kavita Krishnan, AIPWA, New Delhi
12. Anuradha Kapoor ,Swayam, Calcutta
13. People's Union for Democratic Rights PUDR
14. Indira, Women against Sexual Violence
and State Repression, (WSS), New Delhi
15. Kavita Srivastav, PUCL
16. Padma Deosthali, CEHAT, Mumbai
17. Partners for Law in Development, New
Delhi
452. Vrinda Grover
453. Chayanika Shah, Bombay
454. Aruna Roy
455. Kalyani Menon-Sen, Feminist Learning
Partnerships, Gurgaon
456. Nandini Rao
457. Pratiksha Baxi
458. Amrita Nandy
459. Farah Naqvi, Writer & Activist, Delhi
460. Nivedita Menon
461. Urvashi Butalia
462. Kaveri R I, Bengaluru
463. Dunu Roy
464. Harsh Mander
465. Anil TV
466. Laxmi Murthy, Journalist, Bangalore
467. Rahul Roy
468. Rituparna Borah, queer feminist activist
469. Ranjana Padhi, New Delhi
470. Trupti Shah, Vadodara, Gujarat
471. Sudha Bharadwaj
472. Annie Raja
473. Veena Shatrugna, Hyderabad
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18. Kalpana Mehta, Manasi Swasthya
Sansthan, Indore
19. Nandita Gandhi, Akshara, Bombay
20. AALI (Association for Advocacy and Legal
Initiatives), Lucknow
21. National Alliance of people's Movements
(NAPM)
22. Mallika, Maati, Uttarakhand
23. Meena Saraswathi Seshu, SANGRAM,
Sangli
24. Zubaan, New Delhi
25. Indrani Sinha, Sanlaap, Calcutta
26. GRAMEENA MAHILA Okkutta, Karnataka
27. WinG Assam
28. Arati Chokshi, PUCL, Bangalore.
29. Action India, Delhi
30. North East Network (NEN)
31. National Network Of Sex Workers NNSW
32. Majlis Law, Legal Services for Women,
Mumbai
33. Sahiayar (Stree Sangathan), Vadodara
34. National Federation of Indian Women
35. Vasanth Kannabiran (NAWO, AP) Asmita
36. Sheba George, SAHRWARU, Ahmedabad
37. Anandi, Gujarat
38. Medha Kotwal, Aalochana, Pune
39. Sakhi Women's Resource Centre, Kerala
40. SAMYAK, Pune
41. Shabana Kazi, VAMP, Sangli
42. Sruti disAbility Rights Centre, Kolkata
43. Forum to Engage Men (FEM), New Delhi
44. MASVAW( Men Action for stopping Violence
Against Women), UP
45. YP Foundation
46. Breakthrough, New Delhi
47. V Rukmini Rao, Gramya Resource Centre
for Women, Secunderabad
48. LABIA, a queer feminist LBT collective,
Mumbai
49. Law Trust, Tamil Nadu
50. Men’s Action to Stop Violence against
Women (MASVAW), UP
51. National Forum for Single Women's Rights
52. NAWO-AP, Arunachal Pradesh Women's
Welfare Society (APWWS)
53. Indigenous Women's Resource Centre
(IWRC)
54. New Socialist Initiative, Delhi
55. Gabriele Dietrich, Pennurimai Iyakkam
474. Vani Subramanian, New Delhi,
475. Kamayani Bali Mahabal
476. Kiran Shaheen, Journalist and activist
477. Lesley A Esteves, journalist, New Delhi
478. Abha Bhaiya
479. Aditi Malhotra
480. devangana kalita, assam
481. Aruna Burte
482. Anita Ghai
483. Mohan Rao, New Delhi
484. Rakhi Sehgal, New Delhi
485. Geetha Nambisan
486. Charan Singh, New Delhi
487. Manjima Bhattacharjya
488. Jinee Lokaneeta,Associate professor, Drew
University, Madison, NJ
489. Kavita Panjabi, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
490. Albertina Almeida, Goa
491. Satyajit Rath, New Delhi
492. Prerna Sud, New Delhi
493. Priya Sen, New Delhi
494. Aarthi Pai, Bangalore
495. Kalpana Vishwanath, Gurgaon
496. Aisha K. Gill, Reader in Criminology, University
of Roehampton, London
497. Ammu Abraham, Mumbai
498. Anagha Sarpotdar, Activist and PhD Student,
Mumbai
499. Anand Pawar
500. Anuradha Marwah, Ajmer Adult Education
Association (AAEA), Ajmer
501. Asha Ramesh, activist/researcher/consultant
502. Bondita
503. Gauri Gill, New delhi
504. Sophia Khan, Gender & Legal Consultant,
Gujarat
505. Niranjani Iyer, Chennai
506. Dyuti Ailawadi
507. Gandimathi Alagar
508. Gayatri Buragohain - Feminist Approach to
Technology (FAT), New Delhi
509. Geetha Nambisan, Delhi
510. Sadhna Arya, New Delhi
511. Vineeta Bal, New Delhi
512. Suneeta Dhar
513. Geeta Ramaseshan, Advocate, Chennai
514. Sonal Sharma, New Delhi
515. Anusha Hariharan, Delhi/Chennai
516. Jayasree.A.K,
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56. Sangat, a South Asian Feminist Network
57. Stree Mukti Sanghatana, Mumbai
58. SWATI, Ahmedabad
59. Tamil Nadu Women Fish Workers Forum
60. Subhash Mendhapurkar,SUTRA, H.P.
61. Mario, Nigah, queer collective, New Delhi
62. Sushma Varma, Samanatha Mahila Vedike,
Bangalore
63. Mahila Sarvangeen Utkarsh Mandal
(MASUM), Pune
64. Priti Darooka, PWESCR (The Programme
on Women's Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights), New Delhi
65. Pushpa Achanta (WSS, Karnataka)
66. AWN, Kabul
67. AZAD and Sakha Team, Delhi
68. Ekta, Madurai
69. Empower People
70. Society for Women's action and Training
Initiatives-SWATI
71. Centre for Health and Social Justice
72. All India Network of Sex Workers (AINSW)
73. Qashti: A support group for LBT people
assigned female at birth
74. Deep Sonpal, UNNATI Organisation for
Development Education
75. Gautam Bandyopadhyay, Nadi Ghati
Morcha, Chhattisgarh
76. Women's Welfare Center, Pune
77. Dolon Ganguly, Jeevika Development
Society
78. Sangini (I) Trust
79. Parichiti - A Society for Empowermnet of
Women
80. Minu Sud, Simla
81. Maya Ratnam, Baltimore, MD, United
States
82. Diane Smith, Hornby Island, Canada
83. Ramlath Kavil
84. carmen urbín, Spain
85. Kochurani Abraham
86. Georgie Wemyss, London, United Kingdom
87. Sonali Gulati, Richmond, VA, United States
88. Ruchi Chaturvedi, South Africa
89. Nandini Manjrekar
90. Poulomi Pal
91. Juhi Agrawal, London, United Kingdom
92. Nandini Ghosh
93. shreya S
517. Gautam Bhan, New Delhi
518. Jayasree Subramanian, TISS, Hyderabad
519. Jhuma Sen, Advocate, Supreme Court
520. Teena Gill, New Delhi
521. Kannamma Raman
522. Karuna D W
523. Kavita Panjabi
524. Shalini Krishan, New Delhi
525. Lalita Ramdas, Secunderabad
526. Manasi Pingle
527. Madhumita Dutta, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
528. Manoj Mitta
529. Pamela Philipose
530. Parul Chaudhary
531. Preethi Herman
532. Sunil Gupta, New Delhi
533. Radha Khan
534. Rama Vedula
535. Rebecca John
536. Renu Khanna, SAHAJ
537. Rohini Hensman (Writer and Activist, Bombay)
538. Rohit Prajapati, Environmental activist, Gujarat
539. Roshmi Goswami
540. Shipra Nigam, Consultant Economist, Research
and Information Systems, New Delhi
541. Shipra Deo, Agribusiness Systems International
Vamshakti, Pratapgarh
542. Rukmini Datta
543. Sridala Swami
544. Sarba Raj Khadka, Kathmandu
545. Satish K. Singh, CHSJ
546. Shinkai Karokhail, from the Afghanistan
Parliament
547. Sima Samar, Kabul
548. Smita Singh, FTII, Pune
549. Subhalakshmi Nandi
550. Sujata Gothoskar
551. Swar Thounaojam
552. Inayat Sabhikhi
553. Jaya Vindhyala, Hyderabad
554. Sukrit Chandhoke
555. Svati Shah, South Asia Solidarity Initiative, NY,
United States
556. Anand Bhaiya
557. Prabha N
558. Nisha Biswas
559. Pramodini Pradhan
560. Chitra Panikkar
561. Paroma Ray, Singapore
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94. Varuni Bhatia, Ann Arbor, MI, United
States
95. Ellen Sprenger, Johannesburg, South
Africa
96. Sumita Chatterjee, Miami, FL, United
States
97. Giovanna Pompele, Miami, FL, United
States
98. Abhay Kashalkar
99. Monisha Dhingra
100. swatija paranjpe
101. Ribhav Dhingra
102. jayesh jaidka, New Delhi
103. Kanwaljit Khurana, Australia
104. Pooja Gupta
105. Abha Khetarpal
106. Pawan Kumar
107. Smriti Nevatia
108. amol ranjan
109. Manisha Sethi
110. Manoj Bisani
111. Divya S Sarathy
112. Malini Chakravarty
113. Pyoli Swatija
114. Ayushi Saxena
115. Preethi Krishnan, West Lafayette,
United States
116. Pothik Ghosh
117. Usha Raman
118. suchismita chattopadhyay
119. Vanmala Vachani
120. Nitya Menon
121. Rishika Gupta
122. Swarna Rajagopalan
123. SUJATA KHANDEKAR
124. Ruchi Yadav
125. Proshant Chakraborty
126. Ajit Kumar
127. Sumita Thapar
128. Nalini Visvanathan, Washington, DC,
United States
129. Sandhya Rao
130. Saikat Ghosh
131. Azeema Vogeler, Honolulu, HI, United
States
132. Anuradha Prasad
133. Ratna Sudarshan
134. Hema Sekhar, Bangalore,
135. Aradhana Sharma, Middletown, CT,
562. Ketaki Chowkhani
563. Shivani Gupta
564. Brinda Bose
565. Arunava Sinha
566. neha chaturvedi
567. Suchi Kushwah, New Delhi
568. Kriti Budhiraja
569. Indra Sengupta, London, United Kingdom
570. Vineet Nagrath
571. Ashley Tellis
572. Barbara Holtmann, Randburg, South Africa
573. Sushobha Barve
574. shishir chandra
575. Charusmita Gadekar
576. Vasvi Oza
577. Manisha Pathania
578. rajashree gandhi
579. Debarati Halder, Centre for Cyber Victim
Counselling
580. Malini Krishnankutty
581. vandana mahajan
582. Anup Dhar
583. Anubha Sood, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
584. Shrutipriya Dalmia
585. Soumya Chattopadhyay
586. Ravi Verma
587. Rahul Mishra
588. Nandini Sundar
589. Leslie Jogi, Cape Town, South Africa
590. Ritu Priya
591. Hitakshi Sehgal
592. Dwijen Rangnekar, Coventry, United Kingdom
593. Mane Kumria, London, United Kingdom
594. Sara Ortiz Escalante, Spain
595. Mohini Sharm
596. Ravindran Sriramachandran, Sharjah, United
Arab Emirates
597. Vinita Bhatia
598. mohan dharavath
599. Mythri Prasad
600. Shreya K
601. Harish Tharayil
602. Binita Pandya
603. Shrikant Wad
604. zaida muxi, barcelona, Spain
605. Tarang Mahajan
606. Snigdha Gupta
607. renu rajbhandari, kathmandu, Nepal
608. Himakshi Piplani
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United States
136. Sandhya Ahuja
137. ASHISH KUMAR DEY
138. V VIJAYAKUMAR
139. Shernaz Italia, New Delhi
140. Lalita Ramdas
141. Salita Naik
142. Ahamed Raza, Hanford, CA, United
States
143. Shyamjyoti Saikia
144. Afrah Abdulmughni
145. Zoya Akthar
146. Aparna Datta
147. Kazim Khan, London, United Kingdom
148. Nandita Bhatla
149. Samia Vasa
150. Arantxa Bharatiya, Pune
151. Jaya Rose
152. Lester Coutinho, Faridabad, Haryana,
CA,
153. Julia Hard, London, United Kingdom
154. Seela M Mahapatra, New Delhi
155. krishna Menon
156. neetika vishwanath
157. Khushboo Jain
158. Avijit Michael
159. Sucheta Bhattacharya, kolkata
160. Pankaj Jha
161. PRIYANKA SISODIYA
162. Chetan Kumria Taipei, Taiwan
163. Sreekala MG
164. Vasudha Pande
165. Kelly Lyon, United States
166. Kanan Puntambekar
167. Kumkum Roy
168. Tushar Shah
169. Meenakshi Malhotra
170. Jigna Kothari
171. garima shrivastava
172. Neelima Aryan, Bangalore
173. Mridu Kamal
174. anusha lall
175. Sangeetha Purushothaman
176. Rita Thapa, kathmandu, Nepal
177. Swati Sahi
178. Lata Singh
179. Nupur Amarnath, New Delhi,
180. Sister Philomina, WWC, Pune
181. Tej Prakash
609. Janani Sekhar
610. Swapnil Gupta, New Haven, CT, United States
611. Shraddha Chickerur
612. Gitanjali S
613. Bishakha Bhanja
614. Sharmishtha Bose
615. Maya Ganesh
616. Anand Kumria, london United Kingdom
617. Meera Joshi
618. William Toscano, Minneapolis, MN, United States
619. Priyadarshini Rajagopalan
620. Koonal Duggal, Hyderabad
621. sulbha jagat
622. Jayaram N.
623. Sudha N, Bangalore
624. Arti Maddali
625. Poushali Basak
626. Dhivya Sivaramane
627. Aashita Jain
628. Archita Bhuyan
629. Maja Raicevic, Podgorica, Montenegro
630. Sandya Hewamanne, Winston Salem, NC,
United States
631. Ellora Puri
632. Pooja Das Sarkar
633. Uma KP
634. sushmita pati
635. Sudha Venkataramachar
636. Roli Khattri, United States
637. Radhika Balakrishnan, New York, NY, United
States
638. Abhishek Srivastava
639. Vivek Pathak
640. srirupa Prasad, United States
641. Rajan Kurai Krishnan
642. Geetanjali Khanna
643. Purwa Bharadwaj
644. Jayita Roy, Moscow
645. Seema Aroram, United States
646. Shreya Sen, Kolkata, West Bengal
647. Sourya Majumder
648. Subhajit Das
649. Moulshree Shukla
650. Nithila Kanagasabai
651. Sumit Chavan
652. Manisha Gupte, Pune
653. Ishita Ghosh, Palo Alto, CA, United States
654. Bimla Chandrasekar
655. Dilkash Kapur
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182. Prabita Chandran, Redmond, WA,
United States
183. Antonia McGuire, Boston, United
Kingdom
184. Vinaya More, Mumbai
185. Anurag Acharya, Kathmandu, Nepal
186. Shreya Sanghani, London, United
Kingdom
187. Rajender Negi
188. Shilpi Bhattacharya
189. Karthika Vijayan
190. Meher Rehman
191. Anubha Shukla
192. Ratna Manjari
193. benu mohanlal
194. Ajay Cadambi
195. Jaiprakash Taparia
196. Rukmini Sen
197. Sneha Banerjee
198. Bhagyashri Mundhe
199. Maya Shanker
200. Jharna Pathak
201. Bindu Menon
202. Preetha Nair
203. Amita Verma, American Samoa
204. Gummy mug
205. Afifa Azim, Afghan Women Network
(AWN), Kabul, Afghanistan
206. Purnima Gupta
207. Nalini Varshney
208. Arnaz Irani, Mumbai
209. Apoorva Kaiwar
210. Indu MG
211. Sadia Saeed
212. Saradamoni K
213. Jahnvi Andharia
214. Vinamarata Kaur
215. Seema Srivastava
216. indu prakash singh
217. Ankush Das
218. Deepa Sonpal
219. Sangita Dasgupta
220. Priyanka Sarkar
221. Sanchali Sarkar
222. pratibha dmello, Delhi
223. Aman Khot
224. adele tulli, United Kingdom
225. Ruchi Tripathi, Tonbridge, United
Kingdom
656. Abanti Dutta
657. Abe Hayeem, Edgware, United Kingdom
658. John Meghen, Bedford, United Kingdom
659. Ritu Mahendru, london, United Kingdom
660. Yamini Atmavilas
661. Lakshmi Menon
662. Anupama Raj
663. RK Bhardwaj
664. Runu Chakraborty, Uttar Pradesh,
665. Prabhakar Sonparote, Gurnee, IL, United States
Minor Outlying Islands
666. Beulah Azariah
667. cijo joy
668. K.S.Sebastian Kandathil
669. Shuchi Vora, Mumbai
670. Rima Kashyap
671. nevin thomas
672. PANKTI JOG
673. CK Ramachandran, Calicut,
674. Philarisa Sarma Nongpiur
675. Ciby James
676. Kripa Basnyat, Kathmandu, Nepal
677. Prasad Chacko
678. Monika Walia
679. Women for Human Rights single women group,
Nepal
680. Ammel Sharon
681. Sudipta Mukhopadhyay
682. Vinod Srinivasan, Guilderland, NY, United States
683. M. Shankar
684. Archana Shrivastava
685. Khurshid Anwar
686. Juhi Gautam
687. nabanita bhattacharyya
688. KURAPATI SRINIVAS
689. Sunayana Walia
690. Abhijit Das
691. Anuja K
692. Smitha Francis
693. Anushree Tapadar
694. MINAKSHI SANYAL
695. Deepanwita Dutta
696. shivangi jaiswal
697. Hemal Shroff
698. jishnu sadasivan
699. BURNAD FATHIMA NATESAN
700. Jayati Ghosh
701. Sumathi Murthy
702. Sheba Tejani
9/15
226. Ayeshaa Sinha
227. Tejaswini Niranjana
228. Nupur Sanyal
229. Dharmen Shah
230. abhay singh
231. Asha G
232. Anima Sanyal
233. Kartika Suhag, Gurgaons
234. Sarmistha Dutta Gupta
235. Chhaya Datar
236. Savita Kulkarni
237. Beenu Rawat
238. Susheela Singh
239. desai rashesh
240. Alagar Gandimathi
241. Krishna Kant
242. Saurabh Nautiyal
243. Rajoshi Nagchaudhuri, New
Westminster, Canada
244. Urvashi Chauhan
245. Michelle Harrison
246. Arpita Chatterjee
247. Retu Singh
248. Joy Tnjoy
249. Rocky Schnaath
Oakland, CA,
United States
250. Eva Droetto, Göteborg, Sweden
251. Udaya Kumar, New Delhi
252. Pragna Patel, London, United Kingdom
253. George Pulikuthiyil
254. Dr. Jyotsna Chatterji
255. Maninya M
256. Siddharth Govindan
257. mukesh RAWAT
258. noorani mallick
259. Ritika Ganguly, Guilderland, NY, United
States
260. shweta mahajan
261. Beena Rehman, Delhi
262. Srijeeta Mitra
263. Anjali Monteiro
264. Prtiesh Shah, Clinton, NJ, United States
265. Ajitha Kunnikkal
266. nalini menon
267. Sunil D'Monte
268. meenal chaudhari, United States
269. shabana nessen, United States
270. Muneeza Inam, United Kingdom
271. Pradeep Esteves
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744.
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750.
751.
Ruhi Gautam
Juhi Jain
Maya Valecha
meera visvanathan
azra siddiqui
Urvashi Gandhi
Anamika Bhattacharya
Oishik Sircar, Australia
Meenal Kannan
Geeta Charusivam
Shikha Sultan
Anchita Ghatak, Kolkata
Ruma Nguri
Atiya Bose
Amrita Nag
karken riba, itanagar
Eps Greenheads, Itanagar
Gargie Bhattacharya
Samantak Das
NGULI DABI
Sukumar Ray
Rolly Shivhare
Rupsa Nath
Arijita Pal
Deepa V M
niti deoliya
Patricia Mukhim
Shilpi Aggarwal
Shankar Tayung Jonai, Social Activist
milli ossin
Subhrajeet Chakraborty
Nafisa Barot
Madhu Menon
Habung Dunya
urmila unnikrishnan
Hage Umpi
Madhuja Mukherjee
Anitha Sunil
Probal Dasgupta
Farah Batool
Kousalya PWN
Gurjeet Kaur
Suparna Gupta
Pereena Lamba, Mumbai,
Budhaditya Das
We Community Action Network VCAN
josephine joseph
RIMPLE MEHTA, KOLKATA,
Salim Khalid, Gujranwala, Pakistan
10/15
272. Shiney Varghese, Minneapolis, MN,
United States
273. Leila Fitton Bath, United Kingdom
274. Dhrubo Jyoti
275. Rahila Gupta, London, United Kingdom
276. ADRIAN PARKER
boston, United
Kingdom
277. Murray Culshaw, Bangalore
278. Krishnakant Chauhan
279. Anil Karihaloo, cheshire, CT, United
States
280. indira balan
281. S Ismail, London, CA, United States
282. andrew gurevich, Gresham, OR, United
States
283. Ravi Chopra
284. Namrata Sharma, Kathmandu, Nepal
285. K M Venugopalan
286. Anuradha Ramanujan
287. Ana Guedes, Matosinhos, Portugal
288. Chitra Ramanujan
289. Sushmita Mukherjee
290. Ginny Shrivastava, Udaipur, Rajasthan
291. Biswa Ranjan Patnaik
292. Bindu Amat
293. Arun Jindal
294. Sr.Flora Mary
295. Balaraman Kuttamath Kunniyur
296. Anindita Roy
297. Sushmita Mandal
298. Sumathi Rao
299. Rohan DSouza
300. Gauri Nigudkar
301. Nidhi Shendurnikar
302. Shalini Mahajan
303. Amitangshu Acharya
304. Janki Andharia
305. puloma pal
306. Sampoorna India A Network of Trans*
Indians
307. Sumeet Sharma
308. Ishita Chaudhry
309. suvanwita saha
310. Ajth Kumar
311. Drishadwati Bargi
312. Muhammad Vapiwalla, Essex, United
Kingdom
313. Rukmini Dey
752. Joram Ruth
753. Weeny Lisa
754. lipi karso
755. Shivshankar Menon
756. Priya Agrawal
757. tenzin dorjee
758. ujjayini ray
759. Neeti Daftari
760. RIME NGULOM
761. Aarif Saiyed, London, United Kingdom
762. Dr Gita Bharali, United States
763. Aban confectioner
764. vikas kumar
765. Joti Sekhon, Winston-Salem, NC, United States
766. madhabi maity
767. Radha Bhatt, London, United Kingdom
768. susana barria
769. Amiya Dev
770. Arindam Ghatak
771. Kamlesh Oza
772. Usman Jawed
773. Shawn Fontain, Elmira, OR, United States
774. Shweta Radhakrishnan
775. Carole Spary, York, United Kingdom
776. Andy Lee, Los Angeles, CA, United States
777. Revathi Narayanan
778. Aatreyee Sen
779. Ajay T Edison, NJ, United States
780. Moitreyee Mitra
781. Prasad Pannian
782. Bindu Balan, Puducherry
783. Sasikala Ravichandran
784. Uma Ramakrishnan
785. Sudha Balakrishnan
786. Elsie Roy
787. Subadra Murthy
788. Raheema Begam
789. Raziya begam
790. Jyothi Sambhani, Southampton, United Kingdom
791. Urmi Duggal
792. Vidya Lakshmi, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
793. Nandita Basu
794. Ram Mahalingam, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
795. baisali mohanty
796. Ujjwal Singh
797. Anupama Roy
798. Preethi Mohan, Ajman, United Arab Emirates
799. Lalitha Devaradjy, Rochester Hills, MI, United
States
11/15
314. Siddhartha Chatterjee
315. Reshma R
316. Smriti Acharya
317. Rajlakshmi Iyengar
318. Anuradha Nambiar
319. Archana Khare Ghose
320. Abbas Rohawala
321. Anne Philpott, London
322. Jaya Menon
323. Anindya Bandyopadhyay
324. Aditi Mehta, Indore
325. Pallavi Gupta
326. Sandhya P C
327. Limnesh Augustine
328. Vignesh Manjeshwar
329. Sreya Chatterjee
330. Liansangpuia Chhakchhuak
331. Akhilesh Mattoo
332. Chaitra Chandapillai
333. shivangi puri
334. Anya Gupta
335. Krishna Das
336. JAnet Price, Lpool, United Kingdom
337. Ajith Kumar
338. Suneetha Achyuta
339. shereen bhan, atlanta, Puerto Rico
340. Srila Roy, Nottingham, United Kingdom
341. JAYASHREE KHIRE
342. Uma Ravikumar
343. Eddie Bruce-Jones, London, United
Kingdom
344. Suresh K Dubai, United Arab Emirates
345. Pallabi Chakravorty, Wynnewood, PA,
United States
346. Sheila Shulman
London, United
Kingdom
347. lalit jha, Cypress, TX, United States
348. Sikander Bhana, Birmingham, United
Kingdom
349. Shraddha Chatterjee
350. Sheba George
351. Simrita Gopal Singh, Pune
352. Radha Misra
353. Amit Baishya, Muncie, IN, United
States
354. Juhi Bhasin
355. Ragini Deshpande
356. Celeste Gurevich, Portland, OR, United
States
800. Joshina Ramakrishnan
801. Onni Gust, Northampton, MA, United States
802. preeti chauhan
803. Yuki Hibben, Richmond, VA, United States
804. Poorvi B
805. LM Ishiguro, Vancouver, Canada
806. Sanjukta Sunderason, Leiden, Netherlands
807. Uditi Sen
808. Soraya Victoria
France
809. Priyanka Srivastava, Northampton, MA, United
States
810. Shrinkhla Agrawal, Mishawaka, IN, United
States
811. Deepti Tandon
812. KhushI Kabir, Dhaka, Bangladesh
813. Zarina Kabir, Stockholm, Sweden
814. Pallavi Choudhuri, Grand Rapids, MI, United
States
815. Neepa Majumdar, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
816. Erica Wald, London, United Kingdom
817. AInoon Naher, Dhaka, Bangladesh
818. Deepa Majumdar, Westville, IN, United States
819. Marie De Santis, Gualala, CA, United States
820. Aleeze Moss, Philadelphia, PA, United States
821. Papa Nurun Nahar, Boston, MA, United States
822. Bernhard Hertlein, Bielefeld, Germany
823. Krupa Shandilya, Amherst, MA, United States
824. Amrita Basu, Amherst, MA, United States
825. Kumar Nishant
826. Javed Anand
827. Bimal Borah
828. Indu Sagar
829. Akku Chowdhury, Dhaka, Bangladesh
830. Mahi Mahiuddin Palash, Dhaka, Bangladesh
831. Tanisha Ameen, Australia
832. jayadevan pc
833. Uma Vennam
834. Kate Swann, bognor regis, United Kingdom
835. Anatya Vallabh
836. Veena Nabar
837. Yogesh Bhasin
838. Nida Kirmani, Lahore, Pakistan
839. Namita Bharati
840. Jayarajan PK
841. Tom Mundakel, Brooklyn, NY, United States
842. Satish Shetty, Redmond, WA, United States
843. rosemary antrobus, london, United Kingdom
844. TAHERA YASMIN, dhaka, Bangladesh
845. Ravinder Singh
12/15
357. Amlan Das Gupta
358. Anjum Rajabali
359. Namita Kohli, austin, TX, United States
360. Louise Banerjei, Mumbai
361. Vahista Dastoor
362. Arundhati Dhuru
363. Poonam Muttreja
364. Maria Paladino Eugene, United States
365. Papiya Banerjee
366. Sudhamani N
367. Sheena Kanwar, New Delhi
368. ilham khan
369. Malati Roy
370. Anita Anand
371. Rita Manchanda
372. Subha Dasgupta
373. Kobyum Zirdo
374. Himanshu Pandya
375. Abrity Basu
376. Shruti, PhD, JNU
377. Sutapa Chakraborty ,Behala keertika
378. Sarmistha Dutta Gupta ,Sachetana and
Ebong Alap, Kolkata
379. Madhupurna GhoshJt. Secretary
Sutanutir Sakhya
380. Swati Chatterjee, South Kolkata
Sannidhya
381. Sonali Banerjee, Sanlaap, Kolkata
382. Rajashree Dasgupta
383. Devyani Bhardwaj
384. Anwesha Haldar
385. Pragnya Joshi
386. Saptarshi Mandal, Legal Researcher,
New Delhi
387. Reya Mozumdar, New Delhi
388. Sabitha. T. P.,University College
London
389. Philip Vinod Peacock, Bishop’s College
390. Ananya Sarkar
391. Trina Nileena Banerjee, School of Arts
and Aesthetics, JNU.
392. Satish Kumar Singh
393. Rita Thapa, Nepal
394. Lakshmi Premkumar, New Delhi
395. Sourangshu Banerjee ,Executive,
PRADAN
396. Anubhuti Sharma
397. Ratna Raman
398. P.P. Verma, Jharkhand Alternative
846. JAHNAVI BORTHAKUR SAXENA
847. Mohseneen Mirza
848. Shaista waseem
849. Virendra Kumar
850. Bizeth Banerjee
851. CHITTARANJAN GUPTA
852. Pankaj Ganeshgarhia
853. Kishore Pisapati
854. Salil Mathur
855. Kunal Chugh
856. Garima Puniani
857. Alisha Kapoor
858. RUMANA HASHEM, Beckton, United Kingdom
859. Honey Gupta
860. Supriya Naik
861. Alyosha Goldstein, Albuquerque, NM, United
States
862. Apoorva Sinha
863. Preeti Sheth
864. Uma Asher
865. PJ Saju, Ernakulam
866. caroline RATCHAGANATHAN, France
867. Poarkodi Natarajan
868. Jhelum Roy
869. Seema Sarohe
870. Chandra sekhar
871. sarita bakliwal
872. pamela voekel, athens, GA, United States
873. ROHITH CHANDRAN
874. lia latha
875. Sivagamavallie G
876. abeedha samy, Singapore
877. malathi jay
878. Dhanalakshmi Ramany
879. ali syed
880. Banu Subramaniam, Amherst, MA, United
States
881. ARUP BARUA, Dhaka, Bangladesh
882. Anuraag Verma
883. Tanya Mehta
884. AASTHA AHUJA
885. Aqeel Imam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
886. Priya Senthil, Chennai
887. Subhashini Varadarajan
888. Rajiny Balaji
889. Satya Prakash Arya
890. mohana rushyandhan, chennai,
891. Shubham Gupta
892. Aishwarya Aish
13/15
Development Forum, Ranchi, Jharkhand
399. Shilpa Phadke
400. Mini Matthew, advocate.
401. Kriti Team, New delhi
402. Shweta Vachani
403. Neha Kagal
404. Sophia Khan, Gender & Legal
Consultant, Gujarat
405. CFAR
406. Chayya Datar
407. Jarjum Ete ,Spokesperson, Arunachal
Pradesh Women's Welfare Society
408. Preetha Nair, Journalist
409. Pramada Menon
410. GEETA SESHU
411. Sangeeta Chatterji
412. shashi khurana
413. Shruti Arora
414. Ratna Appnender
415. neha kagal, london, United Kingdom
416. Amrita Shodhan, London, United
Kingdom
417. beena JP
418. Amrita Chhachhi, New Delhi,
419. Ila Patlolla, brighton, United Kingdom
420. ponni arasu, New Delhi
421. Hamsini Ravi, Brighton, United
Kingdom
422. Supriya Madangarli
423. Ulrike M. Vieten, Leeds, United
Kingdom
424. Geetanjali Gangoli, Bristol, United
Kingdom
425. Ambika Nair
426. G Arunima
427. Kabi S
428. Madhvi Zutshi
429. Rachit Barak
430. dhanu swadi
431. Anney Unnikrishnan
432. Mansi Sharma
433. Seema Mustafa
434. Imrana Qadeer
435. Kabir
436. Sharmila Rege, Pune
437. Anna George, New Delhi
438. Sheba Chhachhi
439. Ayesha Kidwai, JNU
440. Prakash Burte, freelance journalist
893. Nita Gopal
894. Devi Lakshmikutty, DH, Netherlands
895. Satish Rathore
896. Albert Helene
897. Tushar Anjaria
898. Dhirendra Panda
899. Reena Mohan
900. Kavitha Kuruganti, Bengalaru
901. Mohan Hirabai Hiralal
902. Vamshakti, Pratapgarh
903. Amit R. Baishya ,Assistant Professor ,Ball State
University, Indiana
904. Deepika Tandon, Miranda House
905. Saswati Ghosh
906. Amrita Ibrahim, Washington, DC, United States
907. Devika Chawla, Athens, OH, United States
908. Neelanjana Mukhia
909. Khushi Kabir, Nijera Kori, Bangladesh
910. Akhila Sivadas
911. Ritu Mahendru
912. Krishnakant, Gujarat
913. Dr. Smarajit Jana
914. Dr. Sushena Reza-Paul
915. Dr. Sundaraman
916. Sarojini
917. Nandita Bhatia
918. Priya Thangarajah, legal researcher, Colombo
919. Jan Pehal
920. ActionAid Bhopal
921. Soukhya Project, Bengaluru
922. Vijayalakshmi BV
923. Usha Shrivastava
924. Prasanna PR
14/15
441.
442.
443.
444.
445.
446.
447.
448.
449.
450.
451.
ICAN
Dhiviya David
DidiBahini
Deepa
Sonali Khan
Subhash Mohapatra
Sapana Pradhan Malla, Nepal
Prajanya
Gargi Chakravartty
Koninika Ray
Ranjana Ray
15/15