Jaago Stree!!! A panel discussion on 'Violence against Women' The panel discussion will be chaired by Dr.Carolyn M Elliott, Ph.D (Harvard University) Professor Elliott has taught at the University of California, Santa Cruz, was the Director of the Center for Research on Women at Wellesley College, Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University, and Vice Provost at the University of Vermont. Professor Elliott's areas of interest include comparative politics and women's studies, specializing in India and Women in Developing countries.

The other panelists inculde, Carla Benini, Public Affairs Officer, U.S. Consulate Hyderabad, Smt. Koadaveeti Satyavati, a well known writer on women issues in A.P and the Editor of the women's journal "Boomika" First Feminist Magazine in Andhra Pradesh.

"The United Nations General Assembly designated 25 November as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and invited governments, international organizations and NGOs to organize activities designed to raise public awareness of the problem on that day. Women's activists have marked 25 November as a day against violence since 1981. This date came from the brutal assassination in 1960, of the three Mirabal sisters, political activists in the Dominican Republic, on orders of Dominican ruler Rafael Trujillo (1930-1961)."

Admission is free