TWA gears up for the 9th Central Executive Working Committee
September 12, 2008
Since time immemorial women have been rendered as the weaker sex. But gone are the days when a woman’s role was confined within the domestic frontiers. Today’s post-modern world continues to witness women par excellence reaching the higher notch’s of society.
As the incumbent eighth executive members will complete their term in March 2009, the 9th General Body Meeting to be held in the first week of April 2009 will witness the general elections that will decide the fresh team of executive members for the years, April 2009 to March 2012. This is a crucial phase in the history of Tibetan freedom struggle as we embark on commemorating the 50th Tibetan national uprising. In the year 2009, TWA will mark its 50th anniversary since its inception in 1959 in Lhasa, Tibet and its 25th anniversary since its reinstatement in 1984 in India.
The 9th Central Executive Working Committee will exhibit effective leadership to mobilize and empower the Tibetan women population in exile, to vent the voice of the suppressed Tibetan sisters in Tibet, to carry the legacy of the Tibetan women martyrs, to draw international support to the Tibetan freedom struggle, to finding a lasting and viable solution to the Tibetan issue and to significantly garner global leverage on Tibetan women inside and outside Tibet.
Sensing the importance of identifying the issues of immense significance that TWA needs to address, albeit it is an established fact that TWA has been instrumental in shaping and empowering Tibetan women, but it has also been realized that TWA still has heights to scale and in our strong bid to enable Tibetan women to come out of their cocoon, it is our conviction to encourage them to tread the effective path of leadership and move towards nurturing a more refined society.
To this end, on the occasion of the 24th anniversary of Tibetan Women’s Association, TWA approached 17 prominent personalities in the exile Diaspora with a questionnaire and an invitation to the meeting convened at Surya Hotel, Dharamsala on the 12th of September, 2008, to help us sort out the issues that TWA needs to address and to significantly help us in our efforts to achieve our relentless, unwavering and unnerving pursuit for a successful organizational set-up for TWA. TWA as a bastion of strong and successful women is committed to encourage and help Tibetan women wield their social and political forte and exhibit their leadership prowess.
In our very own Tibetan society, Tibetan women have come a long way and TWA have been instrumental in shaping and empowering Tibetan women. But TWA still has heights to scale and in our strong bid to enable Tibetan women to come out of their cocoon, it is our conviction to encourage them to tread the effective path of leadership and move towards nurturing a more refined society. TWA as a bastion of strong and successful woman is committed to encourage and help Tibetan women wield their social and political forte and exhibit their leadership prowess.