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Swayam is a feminist organisation committed to ending discrimination and violence against women facilitating women’s empowerment and advancing gender equality since 1995. On the one hand we facilitate the empowerment of women survivors of violence and enable them to become self-confident, self-sufficient and self-reliant. On the other, we generate discussion, debate and action in society to challenge social norms, values and systems that deem discrimination and violence against women and girls acceptable.
Gender Based Online Violence
Gender Based Online Violence happens when people use digital tools or online spaces to harm others based on their gender – especially women, queer and other marginalized persons. It means using technology like mobile phones, social media, messaging applications or the internet to harm, silence or control. In simple terms, it is a modern form of abuse.
JUST RELEASED: The Natal Family: A Neglected Site of Domestic Violence Against Women: An Exploratory Study
This exploratory study foregrounds the largely invisible issue of natal family violence (NFV) in India, exploring its forms, prevalence, and deep, long-term impacts on women's lives. It challenges the myth of the natal home as a safe space and centres survivor voices and lived experiences.
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In Media
Gender Based Film Festival in collaboration with SRFTI. Read the coverage here: https://epaper.telegraphindia.com/calcutta-edition/29/2025-12-01/page-5/article-1273402315.html Swayam created impactful audio visuals with Oglivy on Online Gender Based Violence and did a press conference with representatives from diverse sectors. Read the Coverage: https://epaper.telegraphindia.com/calcutta-edition/29/2025-11-26/page-8/article-1483613832.html Swayam’s Wall Mural to commemorate the 30-year journey. Read the coverage here: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/trolls-to-deepfake-navigating-gender-based-online-violence/articleshow/125572131.cms?utm_source=app&utm_medium=share&utm_campaign=social_share Highlights Anandabazar Patrika […]
Resource Directories for women
Women and children who experience violence and discrimination need a variety of support services, particularly in crisis situations. However more often than not, they do not know whom they can approach for help. There are numerous organizations in Kolkata that provide these services but information about them is not easily available and tends to be limited. The Women’s Resource Directories bridge this gap by bringing together information about the availability of these services in a handy format that women and children can keep with themselves at all times.
Violence Facts & Figures
Global estimates published by the World Health Organisation (WHO) indicate that “about 1 in 3 (35%) of women worldwide have experienced either physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence or non-partner sexual violence in their lifetime.”
Building Violence Free Communities
Creating social condemnation against violence on women is one the most effective ways of preventing it. Swayam has been working consistently to establish gender-just and violence-free communities in a few rural and urban areas, in collaboration with local community members, CBOs, NGOs and the government machinery. Swayam’s aim is to facilitate the creation of pro active groups of women and girls, men and boys and equip them to address and prevent violence against women in their communities, with the ultimate objective of creating communities where women are free from violence.
Films
Stay Alert Online: Film 1 Bengali Stay Alert Online: Film 1 English Stay Alert Online: Film 1 Hindi Stay Alert Online: Film 2 Bengali Stay Alert Online: Film 2 English Stay Alert Online: Film 2 Hindi Forms of Domestic Violence: Erotic English Forms of Domestic Violence: Erotic Hindi Forms of Domestic Violence: Loose Change English […]