The Indore temple tragedy, which claimed at least 14 lives and injured many others, could have been averted if the civic authorities acted on the complaints filed by residents.
movements led by women. coming up, we ll hear about the fight for the equal right to pray for women at the western wall injerusalem, the argentinian forensic pioneer unearthing war crimes, the anti nuclear protest that was the biggest women led movement in the uk since the suffragettes, and a watershed moment for canada s indigenous people. but we start in london and a story about the strikers in saris, a group of south asian women employed in the grunwick film processing factory. because of the poor working conditions there, they decided to take a stand for workers rights and their action captured the imagination of many other trade unionists, as lakshmi patel told me. for housewife mrs jayaben desai, her 220th day on the picket line was marked by a presentation. i this is a presentation on behalfl of the north west london branch of usdaw, the shop workers union, to mrs desai,
jayaben was not upset with the defeat at all. we felt that asian women in england had fought for two years for the union. and we were proud of that fact. the reason we were fighting, we have achieved. the treatment with the staff has already changed. - it is a great victory. the wages was increased after that. don t you think it s a victory? i am so proud of myself that we fought for our rights. lakshmi patel remembering the grunwick strike, which inspired widespread trade union support. our next story is about mercedes doretti, a forensic
i am so proud of myself that we fought for our rights. lakshmi patel remembering the grunwick strike, which inspired widespread trade union support. our next story is about mercedes doretti, a forensic anthropologist from argentina who founded a team dedicated to searching for the remains of the missing victims of war atrocities and state violence. in their search for the truth, her team has exhumed remains in more than 30 countries, among them el salvador, the scene of a brutal civil war in the 1980s. we end up exhuming the remains of close to 140 kids that were all in this very small one room house. we were exhuming all these little dresses and whatever
and their action captured the imagination of many other trade unionists, as lakshmi patel told me. for housewife mrs jayaben desai, her 220th day on the picket line was marked by a presentation. i this is a presentation on behalfl of the north west london branch of usdaw, the shop workers union, |to mrs desai, who is the treasurer| of the strike committee. thank you very much for coming along. . translation: jayaben desai was a very strong woman. . she had made up her mind to bring the union into the factory. ..because our women were treated badly. we believed that if women have so many rights in this country, then why can t we have them, too?