Sama Resource Group for Women and Health conducted a state-level workshop titled Sickle Cell Disease: A Social & Gendered Issue and Perspectives on July 25, 2025, at Raipur, Chhattisgarh. The workshop was part of Sama’s ongoing engagement with SCD through a reproductive and disability justice framework. Continue reading
Building on earlier conversations, research, and collective reflections on Sickle Cell Disease (SCD), Sama Resource Group for Women and Health convened a follow-up roundtable meeting in New Delhi on 4 July 2025.The roundtable sought to deepen engagement with psychosocial health and disability justice as core concerns in responses to SCD. Here are some photographs of the roundtable. Continue reading
On 4 July 2025, Sama Resource Group for Women and Health hosted a roundtable meeting in New Delhi as follow-up to its work on SCD. The aim of this roundtable was to emphasise the importance of centring psychosocial health and disability justice as core concerns in responses to SCD. Continue reading
We began this new year (2025) with organising a Short Course for healthcare providers on ‘Addressing Gender-based Violence as a Public Health Issue’. This was organised as a residential programme in Bhopal from January 6th to 10th in which 15 participants joined us from 10 different states. This marks a significant milestone in our efforts, as Sama has dedicated more than a decade and a half to advancing the recognition of gender-based violence (GBV) as a critical public health issue. Continue reading
We are organising another sharing space on ‘Multiple Patriarchies, Collective Struggles: Gender Justice, Laws and Perspectives’ with prominent human rights lawyer and legal research expert Mangla Verma as the speaker at 3:00 PM on 12 March 2025. हम ‘अनेक पितृसत्ता, एकत्रित संघर्ष: जेंडर न्याय, कानून और परिप्रेक्ष्य’पर एक और साझा सत्र का आयोजन कर रही है 12 मार्च 2025 को दोपहर 3:oo बजे । इस सत्र में, हम एक प्रमुख मानवाधिकार वकील और कानूनी शोध विशेषज्ञ मंगला वर्मा से सुनेंगे । Continue reading
On the eve of this 8th March, International Women’s Day 2025, we are organising a sharing space on “Multiple Patriarchies, Collectivised Struggles.” In this online session, Dr. Ayshwarya will share with us her perspectives on gender, sexuality, violence, and sexual and reproductive health rights. इस 8 मार्च, अंतरराष्ट्रीय महिला दिवस 2025 की पूर्व संध्या पर हम “अनेक पितृसत्ता, एकत्रित संघर्ष”- एक साझा सत्र का आयोजन कर रहे हैं। यहाँ हम डॉक्टर ऐश्वर्या से जेंडर, यौनिकता, हिंसा और यौन व प्रजनन स्वास्थ्य अधिकारों पर उनके दृष्टिकोण के बारे में सुनेंगे। Continue reading
