Gulabi Gang

The Gulabi Gang is an association of Indian women in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, which defends women's rights and against social injustice. Gulabi means pink and is the feminine being ( soft and fragrant ) symbolizing. Characteristic of the women who belong to the Gulabi Gang, are pink saris and truncheons made ​​of bamboo ( Lathi ), which are commonly worn by police officers.

Was launched, the Gulabi Gang Sampat Pal Devi 2006. The mother of five children brought the ball rolling by hand to the floor and with a reinforcement of certain women beat up a policeman. Then she repeated vehemently against this and went against violent men and policemen who refused to investigate the rape and abuse cases. Opposite Devi now run various proceedings. "We are not violent and put our sticks one only when our self-esteem is trampled. Then the lawman get a taste of the fury of the women, " Sampat Pal Devi said the actions of the activists. The women also try the Indian bureaucracy often encountered corruption curb by monitored in 2008, Fair-Price- shops that verscherbelten the vegetables on the black market, rather than to sell it at subsidized prices to the poor.

Meanwhile, already 150,000 women have joined together in the " Gulabi Gang ". They produce through their actions public.

The Gulabi Gang is the subject of the film Pink Saris (2010) by Kim Longinotto as well as the documentary film Gulabi Gang (2012 ) by Nishtha Jain.