Red Brigade

About Us

In 2011, Usha Vishwakarma along with a group of 15 girls, most of them being victims of one or other form of sexual assault decided to fight back. Founder Usha started her activism journey with a belief that education leads to a life with dignity, but this belief was broken when she survived an attempt of rape by a co-worker in 2006. Perturbed by this she registered a group Red Brigade Lucknow as a Trust (under the Indian Trusts Act, 1882) in December 2016, with a mission & vision to establish a society where women live with dignity and safety.

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Realizing that the emancipation of women from fear and discrimination needs an all dimensional approach it focuses on:
  • Creating an engaging platform led by survivors, to raise and strengthen the voice against all kinds of violence and oppression of the women
  • Empowering them with self-defence skills to combat violence.
  • Creating feminist leadership. )
  • Fighting for justice of marginalized women and girl survivors, through activism, legal aid, media mobilization, educational and counselling support, livelihood training etc
  • Participating with and building movements which address all kinds of discrimination and oppression against women