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Mythili Sivaraman
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Vice President of AIDWA
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Political partyCommunist Party of India (Marxist)

Mythili Sivaraman is a Women Rights Activist in India.[1] She is currently one of the Vice President's of All India Democratic Women's Association(Women's wing of Communist Party of India (Marxist)).[2]

She worked as a Research Assistant in the Permanent Mission of India to the UN(July 1966 to mid-1968).She was involved in research works related to non-self-governing territories and their problems and Decolonization in the Third World.[3] At the end of her stint in the UN, she returned to India to work with the Left movement and became a well-known Trade Union Organizer and Women rights activist.

She played a Great role in bringing the atrocities of the Kilvenmani massacre incident to the world through her articles and essays. A collection of her articles and essays about the incident is released as a book named Haunted by Fire. [4]

Mythili also played a very crucial role in Vachathi case . She interviewed many raped victims and documented the facts and represented the case before the Commission for Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes.[5]






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