National Law Institute University, Bhopal, on Monday, hosted the third edition of the prestigious, popular and proud ‘WeTheWomen Bhopal Chapter’ organised by Facebook and UN Women in association with NLIU, Bhopal.
Sensing that women empowerment is not just a trending topic in today’s world but has become the need of the hour. many women who excelled in their respective fields, despite all odds, were seen seated on an illustrious panel consisting of the Pink fame Taapsee Pannu, Asha Devi and Badri Nath (parents of Nirbhaya), Supreme Court Justice (Retd) Gyan Sudha Mishra, Saxophone Subbalaxmi, Capt Shalini Singh, MP Minister Jaivardhan Singh, Lalitha Kumaramangalam, the former chairman of national Commission of Women, Asst. Comdt Monica Salve and Ravi Kala of the CRPF, Revolver Dadis (World’s Oldest sharp shooters), Juhi Jha (International Kho-Kho Player), Talat Jahan (Bhopal’s First female Auto Driver),
Sanjana Singh (1st Transgender in MP to get a Government Job), ADG Anuradha Shankar & Journalist Rama Solanki and many such other inspiring and motivating women leaders.
Ankhi Das represented social media giant Facebook at the event. This event was moderated by Burkha Dutt. The guests for the day were welcomed by Girbala Singh, (Registrar NLIU) and Prof Mukesh Srivastava (Faculty head, Cell for Studies in Media and Law).
‘We The Women’, a concept of Facebook and UN Women made debut in Bengaluru in 2018 with a vision to bring together like minded feministic views from various walks of life spanning from cinema, politics and sports to law and literature under one umbrella to further and nurture issues and ideas to promote women. The first edition of this event was organised on October 7, 2018 and witnessed the presence of Sonam Kapoor,
Taapsee Pannu and Vicky Kaushal from the Bollywood, various sportspersons such as Mithali Raj, Heena Siddhu, Maan Kaur and NASSCOM Chairperson Debjani Ghosh.
The second edition of the same took place at film city Mumbai on December 9-11, 2018.
The Mumbai edition was graced by the presence of Alia Bhatt, Twinkle Khanna and Karan Johar from the film industry, Olympian Sakshi Malik, and Politicians such as Smriti Irani.
This edition is the third edition of this event which is organised at National Law Institute University, Bhopal.