GLRF stands for Gender, Livelihoods and Resources Forum, a regional forum based in Jharkhand (India)

It advocates for Tribal Women's Land based Resource Rights (including training and services) from all stakeholders - Community, Private and State, for creating a gender-just violence free environment.

This E-Group is meant to connect all efforts (irrespective of community or religion or nation) which facilitate the process of creating a gender equity world. These efforts could be in the forms of events, or analysis based articles, or documents, or campaign, or educational material, or news. We hope to 'broaden our collective as thinkers and actors' on the issue, so that we can all learn from each other and strengthen the issue further.

All members can post, but it will be held for moderation which takes 1-3 days. Members should post only those materials which have a direct gender dimension, or if indirect, then explanation is required, for it to get posted by the Moderator. An article concerning a human right violation or state oppression will not get posted if it does not reflects a gender dimension or analysis which the readers of this group will be expecting. Personal mails should be avoided.

THE POSTINGS CAN RELATE TO MEN AND WOMEN OF ANY DIVERSE SOCIAL BACKGROUNDS.

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While GLRF attempts to link land & resource rights for tribal women as the central point of all gender inequity making its entry in the tribal community, it has not forgotten patriarchy can take various shapes and forms – from globalisation 'thrusted' to feminisation of poverty to violence against women in the name of customs. Reforms, actions and struggles are required at various levels depending on the stakeholders we are dealing with.

There are hundreds of attempts being tried to create a better world for tribal women - from the tribal identity protection perspective, from women's right perspective, from the perspective of community control over natural resources, from labour rights perspective in this globalised economy and ... But still there is a common dream – to establish a society based on justice. (And this includes gender justice issues in tribal community).

Looking ahead for establishing gender equity beyond the usual scene of men and women dancing together !

Let us give due respect to culture but stand for gender justice in this era of increasing globalization and patriarchy !!

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