## Sexuality, Gender and Rights Institute - Hindi st th 14 - 18 November, 2022 th Last Date to apply: 15 October, 2022

Organized by CREA, NewDelhi, the Sexuality, Gender and Rights Institute (SGRI) is a five day long, residential Institute, conducted in Hindi.

The seventeenth in the series, SGRI - Hindi is designed for the conceptual study of sexuality and its application to program interventions. The Institute examines the links between sexuality, rights, gender and health, and their interface with socio-cultural and legal issues. Participants critically analyze policy, research, and program interventions using a rights-based approach.

### Read About a Few Faculty Members from SGRI 2021

Shalini Singh Singh - Shalini Singh is a feminist activists and lawyer. She has been working in the field of women 's issues for the last 25 years. At CREA, during the past 17 years, Shalini has been designing and managing all Hindi training programs and institutes, which includes the annual basic training on Gender and Sexuality, Feminist Leadership and Movement Building Institute and the Sexuality and Gender Rights Institute in Hindi. She also works on capacity building of the network of women's organizations, imparting training on feminist leadership, womenviolence, gender, sexuality and law related to rights. She also leads the community-based program of action 'Meri Panchayat Meri Shakti'. Apart from all these, Shalini oversees the work related to writing, translation and publication of all Hindi publications and training manuals. Pramada Menon - Menon - Pramada Menon is a queer feminist activist. She works on issues of gender, sexuality and women's humanrights. She is the co - founder of CREA. Currently, she works as an independent consultant, makes documentary films and is also a stand-up performance artist. Dipta Bhog - Dipta Bhog is the founder member of Nirantar Trust. She has worked as a journalist and activist for women's rights and women's literacy issues. She has over two decades of work experience in adult and girl education and rural journalism. She has worked in designing programs at Nirantar, a center for gender and education, its implementation and influence policy making. She has trained women activists, teachers, students, researchers, government officials and master trainers at the national and regional (particularly South Asia) levels on the issue of gender and education. She has intensively studied school books from a feminist perspective. On the subject of gender in education, she was associated with the committee to form the National Curriculum Framework of 2008. Recently, she conducted a study on the subject of women 's leadership in non-government organizations working in rural areas. Dipta Bhog contributed to the setting up of Khabar Lahariya in 2002 and is also involved in training of women journalists in rural areas. Chayanika Shah Shah - Chayanika Shah is a queer feminist activist, researcher and teacher. She has written a lot on the politics of population control, reproductive technology, feminism, feminist views on science and sexuality and gender. Chayanika has been an active member of the violence against women forum, a voluntary, non-funded, autonomous women's group based in Mumbai for more than thirty years. She has been associated with another Bombay-based voluntary queer feminist group, Labia, for the past twenty years. Labia is a group of lesbian and bisexual women and trans individuals. Chayanika has a Doctorate in Physics and taught the subject at a college in Bombay for two decades. Ratnaboli Ray Ray - Ratnaboli Ray is the founder and managing trustee of Anjali, a Kolkata-based organization. Anjali works in mental health, particularly with mental health institution, systems and communities to make them more intersectional and inclusive. Anjali works on the development of services and study of policies and human rights on mental health in India. Ratnaboli is a psychologist and has been working as a health activist for more than 15 years. Ratnaboli was awarded the Ashoka Fellowship in the year 2000 for work with Anjali.