Introducing All India Forgotten Women’s Association (AIFWA)

AIFWA is pleased to announce, to the media and the public, the launch of its youth wing, the True Equity Network (TEN) – India.

AIFWA is a not-for-profit organization campaigning against the misuse of protections and privileges granted to women.

AIFWA stands for true gender equality, and demands that civil and criminal laws be made equally applicable to men and women.

Why TEN – India?

Proponents of the women’s cause routinely attribute traits of low esteem, self pity, vagrancy, vulnerability and helplessness to women and girls.

Champions of the women’s cause have pushed, arm-twisted and bullied the Government into passing many anti-male, anti-family provisions and policies in the name of women’s rights and empowerment.

Women’s rights activists have convinced the society that in order to compensate for all the real or perceived disadvantages and sufferings endured by women in the past, present day women should be accorded special treatment in all areas of life, even if it is at the expense of the human rights and welfare of their male counterparts.

Thoughtless emphasis on pampering women has not only been hurting men and children, but it is also doing much harm to women themselves, and preventing them from appreciating all the joys of womanhood, motherhood, family life, and harmonious coexistence with men.

AIFWA endeavours to:

• enable young women to discover the beauty of womanhood and the true meaning of empowerment.
• inculcate self-esteem among young women and encourage them to appreciate true gender equality.
• help young women understand “Equal Means Equal”.
• urge young women to reject preferential treatment over men in all areas of life.
• encourage young women to make use of their strengths and excel in their chosen fields of study or vocation.
• promote among young women, a healthy attitude towards themselves as well as towards men.
• promote balanced, self-respecting, hard working women as positive female role models.

TEN-India is based on the following principles:

• Equal does not mean same; Men and women are different but are equally entitled to constitutional rights and human rights.
• Equality of opportunity does not mean equality of outcome; Men and women must maintain their self-esteem and earn respect and reward by proving their true individual worth.
• Equality under law is essential irrespective of gender; Men and women should be given equal protection from and equal punishment for any crime.
• Equal rights beget equal responsibilities; Men and women must not only enjoy equal rights but they must also shoulder equal responsibilities.

We would like to promote gender harmony through following The “TEN” Commandments:

1. Doing injustice to men is not equal to Doing justice to women.
2. Oppressing men is not equal to Uplifting women.
3. Harming men is not equal to Protecting women.
4. Disempowering men is not equal to Empowering women.
5. Denying opportunities to men is not equal to Providing opportunities for women.
6. Penalizing men is not equal to Rewarding women.
7. Degrading men is not equal to Honouring women.
8. Undermining men’s lives is not equal to Valuing women’s lives.
9. Neglecting men’s welfare is not equal to Promoting women’s welfare.
10. Violating men’s rights is not equal to Upholding women’s rights.

On the occasion of the launch of TEN-India, we are inaugurating a flyer campaign which will continue until 8^th March, International Women’s Day.

We will spread our message to as many young women as possible in Hyderabad, and encourage them to become members of TEN-India. We will expand our “movement for real empowerment” to the rest of India in the coming years.

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“To be a feminist is to acknowledge that one’s life has been regressed. The demand for granting preferential treatment to women is an admission on her part of her inferiority and there has been no need for such a thing in India as the women have always been by the side of men in Council and in the fields of battle…. We must have no mutual conflict in our homes or abroad. We must transcend differences. We must rise above nationalism, above religion, above sex.”

- Sarojini Naidu

(at the Fourth session of All India Women’s Conference, Bombay, 1930)

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