About ICWI
Our Mission and VisionICWI’s Mission is to build a non-sectarian, left, diasporic membership-based organization that represents the diversity of India’s peoples and anchors a transnational network committed to building a radical and just democracy in India.
ICWI is committed to:
- Upholding the democratic rights of all peoples in India and the Indian communities in North America
- Investigating and documenting the violations of these constitutional rights
- Analyzing how democratic and constitutional rights are impacted by national and international policies
- Organizing and highlighting people’s collective resistance to gender inequality, caste oppression, religious persecution, majoritarian violence, economic inequality, and state repression
- Mobilizing public opinion in the Indian diaspora towards addressing these violations against all targeted minority groups
ICWI's Vision
- To create an active and engaged Indian diasporic community that supports strategic interventions from social movements aiming to build participatory democracy in India and power in diasporic communities
- To create a reliable international network that would produce timely and strong appropriate responses for bringing international attention and rallying around issues of social justice in India
- To create and consolidate institutions and revamp infrastructure for the expression of dissent in India
- To create an international platform that would offer concrete ways to act in transnational solidarity with activists, journalists, authors and other individuals, organizations, and movements under attack all over the world