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- Jugnu Clubs, formed with support from UN Women in several tea estates in Assam, are women’s empowerment groups that are helping to break the silence on violence against women and mobilize action for the safety and equality of all women and girls.
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Dec 9, 2020 · The Jugnu Clubs are self-empowerment groups formed by women tea pluckers and factory workers on tea estates in Assam. With support from UN Women, the clubs, in select...
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More than a third of women worldwide have experienced either physical or sexual violence at some point in their lives, according to research by the World Health Organization. And while it’s hard to put a price on the emotional and physical impact of violence on women’s health and wellbeing, we can put a figure on its economic impact. Researchestima...
The first was encouraging producers to look within their companies to see how women’s safety was being addressed. “I feel great to be part of this pioneering work,” says Unilever’s Procurement Manager Daleram Gulia. “The women workers are our most valuable resource. They are also someone’s daughter, mother, sister. Safety and feeling safe is a basi...
A second action area saw UN Women convene training sessions with tea industry managers to review policies and see if they had mechanisms in place that allowed women to have complaints addressed. Winfridah Nyakwara, Integrated Social Sustainability Manager for Unilever Africa, launched a women’s safety programme at Unilever’s tea plantations in Keri...
The work carried out by UN Women also encouraged government authorities in rural spaces and producers who manage tea plantations to be more gender responsive in their planning for the estates. In Kericho, for example, alongside improved lighting across the plantations, safe places were set up for women to breastfeed their babies and daycare centres...
The fourth area where UN Women helped to support local women’s organisations in partnership with Unilever was on changing social norms, attitudes and behaviours towards women. “Through its convening role, UN Women helped to strengthen partnerships between Unilever Kenya’s Women, Girls and Boys Safety programme and locally based organisations with w...
Meenakshi Sundaram, a representative of the Assam government, believes that “the tea industry can show an example to other labour-orientated industries. “It can say: ‘Look, I have cleaned up my house. I have set a standard. I have shown you a model. Please take it up and also the rest of us should follow’,” he says. “Our ambition is to be a leading...
Members of a “Jugnu” club get trained by UN Women to support women who experience gender-based violence., by UN Women. Many women, who have been forced to stay at home due to...
Jul 4, 2022 · In January 2017, U.N. Women supported the formation of women’s empowerment groups, called Jugnu Clubs, across tea estates in Assam with the aim of preventing violence against women in Assam. The Jugnu Clubs form part of a broader U.N. Women prevention of violence initiative in rural Assam.
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Mar 11, 2020 · ‘Jugnu’ means fireflies, symbolic for the torchbearer role they perform in preventing and responding to violence against women and girls. Each Jugnu club has 10-12 members being trained by the UN Women to better understand issues of violence and respond to women and girls in distress.
Nov 25, 2022 · Through the work of NGOs and the UN's Jugnu Clubs, in recent years more women in Assam have opened up about their experiences with gender-based violence.
