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Article Excerpt
The idea for the Open Letter, and the initial draft, emerged at "Aarohan 2003," a conference for South Asian women's organizations, which Manavi hosted in August 2003. Participants who were interested in formulating the letter formed a subgroup, and continued to work on the letter after the conference. The letter was released in March 2004 on the second anniversary of the violence.
The Open Letter is available as an online petition at: http://www.thePetitionSite.com/takeaction/541267538. We encourage you to sign your name to the petition, anonymously or otherwise, and forward the petition to your friends, families, colleagues, and other community members to show solidarity with the women who suffered during the violence and to help raise awareness about the intersection of communal violence and violence against women.
Open Letter to the Women of Gujarat
We, the undersigned organizations and individuals working...
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