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Gujarat: At SEWA event, a call to declare November 2 as Day for Informal Workers

November 06, 2024 12:10 am

Jyoti Macwan, General Secretary of SEWA (Self Employed Women's Association), said, “It is vital that the global community recognises November 2 as a day dedicated to informal workers."

An NGO for women working in unorganised sectors: Here’s how SEWA has been empowering the workforce for decades

May 02, 2023 3:16 pm

Despite being a majority in the informal economy, women face exploitation in the form of gender bias, pay disparity, lack of awareness about their rights and inconsistent and low wages.

Hillary Clinton visits Little Rann of Kutch

Hillary Clinton meets salt pan workers, announces USD 50-million Climate Resilience Fund

February 07, 2023 2:48 am

Roughly 70 per cent of the total production of salt in the country comes from the salt pans of Gujarat, majorly spread across Little Rann of Kutch in Surendranagar district.

Hillary Clinton to unveil 50-year memorial of SEWA

February 05, 2023 1:46 am

The garden, where the first meeting of SEWA was held, now has a memorial in the shape of an open book made of red sandstone, under a banyan tree planted by Bhatt on April 12, 2022, to commemorate 50 years of SEWA.

Hillary Clinton and Elaben Bhatt: Why the former US First Lady saw the late founder of SEWA as a role model

February 05, 2023 1:01 pm

Clinton arrives in Ahmedabad on Feb 5. She will visit SEWA and Bhatt’s home, and inaugurate a memorial in Lokmanya Tilak Baug. In 1995, Clinton described Bhatt as a “soft-spoken visionary whose work is infused with the ideals of Gandhi”.

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Ela Bhatt: A Gandhian at heart and in her work

November 03, 2022 10:47 pm

Ela Bhatt made self-reliance the chief pillar of her work. She helped women overcome deep-rooted social and economic barriers to lift themselves out of poverty and debt and realise, as she put it, that “poverty is not a destiny”

Thousands bid tearful adieu to Ela Bhatt

November 03, 2022 11:38 pm

Members of SEWA came from districts as far as Kutch and Banaskantha, crying inconsolably. Bhatt passed away Wednesday afternoon after a brief illness. She was 89.

Ela Bhatt, SEWA founder & women’s activist, dies

November 02, 2022 11:58 pm

Elaben, as she was called, founded SEWA, one of the biggest women's cooperatives and national trade unions registered in 1972 that was born out of a textile trade union.