Mangalore, Oct 16: National Women's Front, Kerala will organise a national-level Women's Conference for Empowerment on November 16 at Coimbatore with the aim of empowering women from backward classes against the backdrop of rising number of crimes against women in the country.
Announcing this at a press conference here on Wednesday, NWF national committee member Shahida Tasneem said that as a precursor to the national conference in Coimbatore, a national publicity campaign would be launched in Mangalore.
The national publicity campaign will be inaugurated at a programme on October 17 at Loyola Hall, St Aloysius College, Mangalore. The programme will be inaugurated by the national president of National Women's Front Shahida Aslam, who hails from Mangalore. State NWF president Fathima Naseema will preside over the programme, she said.
Columnist and poet Jyothi Guruprasad, Beary Sahitya Academy member Zohra Abbas, president of Catholic Sabha, Mangalore Flavia D'Souza and Shahida Tasneem will speak in the programme.
She said that women achievers in the fields of education, literature and social service would be felicitated on the occasion. Around 5,000 women and women representatives from various states are expected to participate in the national conference in Coimbatore, she said.
She added that the organisation had its regional units in eight states in the country including Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu.
NWF state secretary Syeda Yusuf, district president Nazeefa and district secretary Zeenath were present during the press conference.
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