For his project on gender justice among women living in India’s river islands in Assam, Abdul Kalam Azad has received the Jerry Lockspeiser Award for Social Justice. The €7000 grant was awarded by an independent panel of experts and administered by Center for Applied Human Rights at the University of York.
Abdul’s project aims to empower a group of char-chapori women artisans with skills and capacities to build resilience to adverse impact of climate change, and fights against structural gender-based violence, like child marriage, domestic violence and state sponsored persecution, for example through citizenship deprivation.
The Centre for Applied Human Rights ate the University of York grants the Jerry Lockspeiser Awards for Social Justice since 2018. to projects on social justice, women’s empowerment and rights, and environment rights.