JAGRUTHA MAHILA SANGHATANE(JMS) is Dalit women agricultural laborers’ collective engaged in the protection and promotion of human rights of Dalit Women through socio-economic-cultural empowerment of dalit women and dalit communities in Karnataka. The principal focus of JMS mobilisation been the social-economic and cultural empowerment of Dalit women agricultural laborers in Hyderabad Karnataka through the Community Based People’s Organization, JMS. Having its operational centre at Potnal village in Manvi Taluka of Raichur District the activities of the organization are spread directly in 25 Gram Panchayats of four talukas/blocks of Raichur district, viz. Manvi, Sindhanur, Maski and Sirwar, covering 60 villages.
OVERARCHING AND GUIDING VALUES
Social Justice, Equity, Dignity, Human Rights, Community Ownership and Participation, Solidarity and Sustainability
VISION
The vision of JMS is to build a just society without discrimination, social injustice and violence
MISSION
The mission of JMS is to mobilise and empower Dalit Women to struggle against all oppression and discrimination based on caste-class-patriarchy, and to creatively engage in reconstruction of social relationships, towards building social structures that enable Dalit Communities in general and Dalit women in particular to live a life of dignity.
GOAL
The goal of JMS is to address structural violations of human rights of Dalit Women, manifested in the form of caste-class-patriarchy based injustices and violence
This goal nencessitates simultaneously to work affirmatively towards strengthening the human right of Dalit women and communities by adopting multiple and intersecting approaches such as using human rights framework/campaign, research, building action-reflection strategies, and address human rights violations of Dalit women by building a collective solidarity. As a human rights driven community based organisation (CBO), its larger goal is to build human rights consciousness and culture of social justice by way of human rights education and addressing human rights issues on a real-time basis.
OBJECTIVES
In the drought prone district of Raichur in North Karnataka, JMS is striving to secure, protect and promote their social, cultural and economic rights with the following objectives as guiding principles.
JMS need helping hands to do more work on empowerment of Dalit Women.
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