Puja Kapai at 'Silenced South Asian Women Stories of Hong Kong'
Updated: Mar 8, 2021
Our Convenor Puja Kapai recently delivered closing remarks at ‘CHUP: A panel discussion on “The silenced South Asian Woman’s stories of Hong Kong”‘, organised by the Zubin Foundation. The Panel was moderated by Shalini Mahtani, co-founder and Chair of the Zubin Foundation and included Dr. Philip Beh, K. Bhuvaneshwari Bhagat, Archana Kotecha, Dr. Ravina Lalvani, and Gladys Li SC.
As legal advisor to Call Mira, Hong Kong’s first helpline dedicated to supporting marginalised ethnic minority women and girls in Hindi, Urdu, and Nepali set up by the Zubin Foundation, Puja shared her insights on the patterns that can be discerned from the calls received and her views on what different sectors can do to help ethnic minority women and girls reach out and to strengthen their capacities for resilience in the face of violence.
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