{"id":16491,"date":"2023-12-20T15:54:19","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T15:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/20\/renowned-social-womens-activist-v-mohini-giri-dies-at-86-n-f-times\/"},"modified":"2023-12-20T15:54:19","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T15:54:19","slug":"renowned-social-womens-activist-v-mohini-giri-dies-at-86-n-f-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/20\/renowned-social-womens-activist-v-mohini-giri-dies-at-86-n-f-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Renowned social, women\u2019s activist V. Mohini Giri dies at 86 &#8211; N.F Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>New Delhi\/Mumbai: Dr. V. Mohini Giri, the icon of women\u2019s movement and former chairperson of National Commission of Women, has died after a brief illness, an aide said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The daughter-in-law of former President V. V. Giri, she was 86, a widow, and is survived by her son and daughter.<\/p>\n<p>V. Mohini Giri died on Tuesday. Her last rites shall be performed in Delhi on Thursday, said a friend in Mumbai.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Lucknow, Mohini Giri, a Padma Bhushan laureate, had dedicated her life to women\u2019s rights, human rights, rights of widows, and was connected with several national, international women\u2019s and social organisations for more than half a century.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was her pioneering efforts that brought international and national focus on the unique vulnerabilities that widows face. Her demise is a great loss for women\u2019s movements as she was a pillar of strength and a great motivator who touched the lives of thousands of women,\u201d said the Guild President &amp; Trustee Meera Khanna.<\/p>\n<p>Mohini Giri founded the War Widows Association in 1972, the Women\u2019s Initiative for Peace in South Asia, was a board member of The Hunger Project, New York, served as the NCW Chairperson from 1995-1998 as well as Chairperson of Central Social Welfare Board, and was conferred the Padma Bhushan in 2007.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(IANS)\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n    var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n    if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n    js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n    js.src = \"\n    fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n  }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] New Delhi\/Mumbai: Dr. V. Mohini Giri, the icon of women\u2019s movement and former chairperson of National Commission of Women, has died after a brief illness, an aide said on Wednesday. The daughter-in-law of former President V. V. Giri, she was 86, a widow, and is survived by her son and daughter. V. Mohini Giri [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-nation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16493,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16491\/revisions\/16493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}