Bali Devi Rana, Head of the Mahila Mangal Dal (Women Welfare Group) of village Reni (Chamoli Garhwal, Uttarakhand, India) has recently returned from the Global Women’s Conference on Environment, organized by UNEP at Nairobi (Kenya) on 11-13 October 2004, where she shared the inaugural stage…
Read more »Posted to Mountain Forum, October 28, 2004 Concerned that most of the agreements made at different global conferences in the last 32 years still remain un-honoured, over 200 women from more than 50 countries gathered at Global Women’s Assembly on Environment: “Women as the Voice…
Read more »Press Club, Dehradun October 21, 2004 Bali Devi being greeted by Maasai women in Kenya. (courtesy of IISD)The Alliance for Development organized a press conference at the Press Club, Dehra Dun on 21 October 2004, on the return of Bali Devi and Biju Negi from…
Read more »Nairobi, Kenya, October 11, 2004 Translated by Biju Negi Listen to the Real Audio of Speech Sisters and Friends, Semanya (Greetings) I am Bali Devi from Reni, a distant village in Chamoli Garhwal, India. You may have heard of Himalaya. My village is in Himalaya.…
Read more »[India News]: New Delhi, Oct 10 : Two Indian women activists will share the platform with Wangari Maathai, this year’s Nobel Peace Price winner, at a United Nations environment meet in Nairobi Monday to highlight women’s struggle for livelihood. Bali Devi, who was part of…
Read more »Just eight months ago in Dhari, a village in Pithoragarh, Uttaranchal, liquor had made life hell for women. There were drunken brawls; women would be abused in front of their wailing children. But today, according to a Civil Society report, men here do not dare…
Read more »NEW DELHI: YEARS before Gujarat became a damning case of state complicity in violence, there was Muzaffarnagar. An incident that was the turning point in the political history of Uttaranchal; a catalyst in the eventual formation of the state. On the night of October 1,…
Read more »By Meera Rawat IN Kandai, Pauri, Basanti Devi, who is about 50 years old now, has been fighting for the future of mountain folk. She has been among the active women participants in all the rallies in the Uttarakhand region. She has crossed the boundary…
Read more »The women who helped birth the new state of Uttaranchal have been relegated to the backrooms of power. Santwana Bhattacharya reports S. Bhattacharya Indian Express. February 15, 2002 EVERYTHING seems idyllic in the hamlets — little chocolate-box affairs from this distance, sometimes a mere three…
Read more »Wednesday, February 13, 2002 NAINITAL, FEBRUARY 11: IT’S a state whose dreams have died young. In Uttaranchal today the predominant poll issue is a sense of betrayal which no threat of war, religious fervour or film star can diminish. After convulsing over the demand for…
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