Case
TO PLAY OR NOT TO PLAY: SHIRKAT GAH WOMEN RESOURCE CENTRE
INDUSTRY :N G O MANAGEMENT
AREA :HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT/ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
ORGANIZATION :-
LENGTH :16
LUMS No :05-742-2010-1
PUBLICATION YEAR : 2010
ABSTRACT:
This case deals with the question of using a street play as an advocacy tool for raising awareness about Westernized and secular notions of women’s reproductive health care rights in rural areas of Pakistan. The immediate issue is whether Mohammad Aslam should use a street play called “Nadia’s Story” as a means of communicating women’s reproductive health care rights to a skeptical village audience in a North Eastern village of Punjab that views his organisation, Shirkat Gah, as representing anti-Islamic and Westernizing forces. The concepts involved in this case deal with street theatre, postcolonial conditions, human rights advocacy based on Western notions of secular humanism, and Islam.