About Us

Where it all Started

‘Majlis’ means association in several Asian countries. The name reflects our broad based pluralistic and multicultural ideology. The founder members of Majlis were part of the early women’s movement in Mumbai. The organisation is registered as a Society and Public Trust in 1991.

The Legal Centre of Majlis was founded by Adv. Flavia Agnes, a legal scholar on women’s rights, as a centre for rights discourse and legal initiatives to address issues of women and children facing violence.. We have three units

Our Vision and Mission

Access to justice to all women and children facing violence by providing social and legal support, advocacy and training

Our Board

Virginia Saldanha is the former Executive Secretary of the Office of Laity & Family of the Asian Catholic Bishops' Forum knowns as FABC. A theologian and journalist based in Mumbai, she also headed the Indian bishops' Commission for Women. The founder member and secretary of the Indian Women's Theologians Forum, Saldanha, is an activist working for justice for women in Church and Society.

Justice Prabha Sridevan served as a judge of the Madras High Court from 2000 to 2010. In her famous judgement National Insurance Co v. Deepika and Ors in 2009 she reflected on a woman’s worth, elaborating the monetary value of work performed by a ‘housewife’. She is a prolific writer and public intellectual, and pens regular columns for both English and Tamil newspapers on a range of social, legal and political issues.She also translates Tamil fiction into English.

Ingrid Srinath is founder Director of the Centre for Social Impact and Philanthropy at Ashoka University. A graduate of IIM Kolkata, she has been CEO of CRY, Secretary General of CIVICUS, ED of CHILDLINE India, CEO of HIVOS India, member of NITI Aayog’s Voluntary Sector Committee and of SEBI’s Technical Committee on the Social Stock Exchange. She currently also serves on the boards of WINGS, Resource Alliance and the Museum of Art and Photography.

Our Team

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Gaural

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Madhuri

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Our News

WCD Consultative Committee

With Minister and Principal Secretary, Women and Child Development, Government of Maharashtra

Our Compliance

Majlis is committed to transparency, due diligence and public accountability.

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