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Gita Sahgal (born 1956 or 1957) [2] [3] is a British writer, journalist, film director, and women's rights and human rights activist, whose work focusses on the issues of feminism, fundamentalism and racism. [4] [5] She has been a co-founder and active member of women's organisations.
Gita Sahgal (born 1956 / 1957) is a writer on the subjects of feminism and fundamentalism. She was the leader of Amnesty International's gender unit from 2003 to 2010. Sahgal was born in Bombay in India. Her mother is writer Nayantara Sahgal. She was raised as a Hindu.
Gita Sahgal is a writer and documentary filmmaker on the editorial collective, ‘Feminist Dissent’. Her documentaries include the Rushdie affair, dowry murders, sati, the case of Kiranjit Ahluwalia, who killed her husband and ‘The War Crimes File’ about the Jamaat-e-Islami death squads in the 1971 war in Bangladesh.
Jun 22, 2019 · Gita Sahgal is the Executive Director of the Centre for Secular Space. She discusses: those forced into change; racism, a collective history; and oppression. Keywords: actual violence, Centre for Secular Space, change, Gita Sahgal, racism.
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May 1, 2018 · Gita Sahgal is a human rights activist and filmmaker, based in London. She is the former head of Amnesty International's gender unit but was suspended in Feb...
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Oct 9, 2014 · Gita Sahgal is a founder of the Centre for Secular Space and a former Head of Gender Unit at Amnesty International. She writes on topics such as sharia, secularism, human rights and women's rights for openDemocracy.
