All Bengal Women’s Union (ABWU) is a non profit organization, founded in the year 1933. Today, more than eight decades later, ABWU has evolved into a far reaching women’s rights organization, providing shelter to disadvantaged women and children, and support, guidance and infrastructure to their struggle for basic rights.
The inception of the organization can be traced back to the agitation by a group of determined women in Kolkata, whose campaign for the legislation against traffic of women and children played a major role in the passing of the Bengal Suppression of Immoral Traffic Act (1933). The same year, ABWU opened its first shelter home in Dumdum, Kolkata, where three young women, who had been victims of exploitation, were provided with shelter support and direction to start new lives. ABWU expanded its wings over the years to shelter more and more distressed and disadvantaged women and children who had been abused, trafficked, abandoned and displaced because of natural or man-made calamities and political exigencies