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International Womens Day- Statement on alarming trends in Negotiations of UN Document

  STATEMENT OF FEMINIST AND WOMEN’S ORGANISATIONS ON THE VERY ALARMING TRENDS IN THE NEGOTIATIONS OF OUTCOME DOCUMENT OF THE 57TH SESSION OF THE UN COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN       We, the undersigned organisations and individuals… Continue Reading →

Poor urban services found to increase risk of #Vaw #womenrights

ActionAid says lack of transport, housing, sanitation and street lighting leaves poor women and girls in cities vulnerable Annie Kelly guardian.co.uk, Indian women travel inside a ‘women only’ metro train compartment in Delhi. Photograph: Yirmiyan Arthur/AP Poor quality and underfunded… Continue Reading →

 Delhi student gang-raped after leaving mall in an auto cried for help for 2 hours ; two arrested #Vaw

Reported by Sonal Mehrotra, Edited by Sindhu Manjesh | Updated: March 07,   Ghaziabad: Two of the three suspects in the gang-rape of a schoolgirl in Ghaziabad have been arrested today. The girl was gang-raped on Saturday after she took an auto-rickshaw  to head… Continue Reading →

Invitation- Know Whats wrong with Clinical Establishment Act in context of Maharashtra

Consultation on the proposed Clinical Establishment Act in context of Maharashtra on 12th of March, 2013 at 3 pm at College of Social Work, Nirmala Niketan, New Marine Lines     Jan Swasthya Abhiyan (JSA) is the Indian circle of… Continue Reading →

International Women’s Day Past and Present- Anuradha Ghandy #mustead #mustshare

– 8 March 2001 is the 91st anniversary of the International Women’s Day (IWD), which was first declared in 1910. In that year, Clara Zetkin, inspired by the working class women’s movement in America, proposed to the Second International Conference… Continue Reading →

Our bodies, our selves #womenrights #gender #Vaw

      NILANJANA S. ROY, The Hindu   Until we embrace the idea of consent in all relationships, including marriage, there can be no gender equality. Its absence makes discussions on sexual abuse meaningless   The man who was… Continue Reading →

German woman rape – Absconding Bitti Mohanty, arrested from Kannur in Kerala #Vaw #Goodnews

ByP Sudhakaran, TNN | Mar 9, 2013, Bitti Mohanty, missing rape convict, arrested in Kerala KANNUR: Bitti Mohanty, high profile criminal and son of former DGP of Odisha Bidya Bhushan Mohanty, who was sentenced to seven years imprisonment for raping a German… Continue Reading →

Mumbai – Delhi Sangharsh Yatre flagged off on Women’s Day from Azad Maidan

A struggle for lie and livelihood against destruction   Azad Maidan, Mumbai, March 8th: The Mumbai – Delhi Sangarsh Yatra against the mammoth Delhi – Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) was flagged off on the occasion of international women’s day from… Continue Reading →

Democracies Don’t Strip Their Women, India Does #Indiashame #womensday

| by Avinash Pandey*   ( March 8, 2013, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka Guardian) The decision of going naked in protest to the oppression committed on them by POSCO and its supporters must not had come easily to the women of Govindpur… Continue Reading →

Tamil Nadu to regulate sale of acid to curb attacks on women #Vaw #Womensday #goodnews

  Reported by Sam Daniel, Edited by Sabyasachi Dasgupta | Updated: March 08, 2013 , NDTV   Chennai: Tamil Nadu would soon be the first state to regulate sale of acid across the counter in an effort to stop acid attacks against women. Chief… Continue Reading →

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