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Ela Ramesh Bhatt (7 September 1933 – 2 November 2022) was an Indian cooperative organiser, activist and Gandhian, who founded the Self-Employed Women's Association of India (SEWA) in 1972, and served as its general secretary from 1972 to 1996.
Nov 6, 2022 · NEW DELHI — Ela Bhatt, a champion of gender justice and equality who secured protections for millions of Indian women in the work force and helped them become self-reliant, died on Nov. 2 in...
Nov 2, 2022 · IT WAS in the December of 2009, at a fashion show at the Kanoria Centre for Arts in Ahmedabad to showcase the ethnic embroidery work of Gujarat, where, amidst the young men and women walking the ramp, came the showstopper — Ela Bhatt, then 76, wearing a white sari with a tassled pallu.
Nov 3, 2022 · Ela Bhatt, founder of the Self-Employed Women’s Association of India (SEWA) in 1972 and dedicated women’s rights activist, passed away at age 89. Often called a “gentle revolutionary” for her Gandhian practitice of non-violence, Bhatt championed the lives of marginalized women across the world through SEWA.
Nov 4, 2022 · Elaben was an activist and a feminist, well ahead of her time and milieu. She was a lone voice in the trade-union movement in Ahmedabad in the 1960s, when her engagement with unorganised women workers in the Ahmedabad textile industry began.
Nov 11, 2022 · An activist who championed collective power, Ela Ramesh Bhatt, affectionately called Elaben (ben means sister), died earlier this month. Pioneering financial services for poor women, Bhatt...
Nov 3, 2022 · Ela Bhatt, founder of SEWA and women's rights activist, has passed away. Her legacy as a pioneer of the women's movement in India lives on. by Mirai Chatterjee. 4 min read. Many an epithet has been used to celebrate her—the gentle revolutionary, the Mahatma of “shramjeevi” (working) women, and more.
Nov 2, 2022 · Renowned lawyer and women empowerment activist and Padma Bhushan winner Ela Bhatt breathed her last on Wednesday (November 2) at an Ahmedabad hospital. She was 89 years old. Bhatt was the founder of SEWA (Self-Employed Women’s Association), one of the largest women’s cooperatives and trade unions in India. Established in 1972, SEWA boasts ...
Nov 2, 2022 · Noted women's rights and micro-finance activist, lawyer and Padma Bhushan recipient Ela Bhatt passed away on Wednesday, November 2, at the age of 89. Ela Bhatt was a well-known Gandhian and advocated the economic empowerment of women. She founded and headed the Self-employed Women’s Association in India (SEWA).
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday condoled the death of Padma Bhushan awardee Ela Bhatt, activist and founder of the Self-Employed Women's Association of India (SEWA). She was 89.
