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India -Paying wife for domestic work ? A salary plan that changes nothing

  MAYA JOHN, The Hindu Instead of asking a man to pay his wife for her domestic work, the state must create jobs for women outside the home in order to truly empower them Recently during a press conference called… Continue Reading →

Domestic Violence against Nurses by their Marital Partners: AIIMSA, New Delhi #VAW

A Facility‑based Study at a Tertiary Care Hospital Kamlesh Kumari Sharma, Manju Vatsa College of Nursing, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India Background: In recent times, domestic violence against women by marital partners has emerged as an… Continue Reading →

American Gun Culture creeping in India – Thanks to the UNSAFE CAPITAL – DELHI #VAW

Delhi women gun for arms licences Dwaipayan Ghosh, TNN | Aug 4, 2012, 1 It could be a new measure of women’s emancipation or just a passing fad, but Delhi Police has been stumped by the huge number of working women seeking… Continue Reading →

Mangalore attack: Girls should skip parties, Karnataka women’s panel boss says #WTFnews

  TNN | Aug 2, 2012, BANGALORE: If the girls brutalized by moral vigilantes in Mangalore last week were looking for any womanly understanding from the Karnataka StateWomen’s Commission, they were in for a big disappointment.Commission chairperson C Manjula, who on Wednesday… Continue Reading →

Adding It Up: Costs and Benefits of Contraceptive Services Estimates for 2012

HIGHLIGHTS June 2012 In 2012, an estimated 645 million women in the developing world were using modern methods— 42 million more than in 2008. About half of this increase was due to population growth. The proportion of married women using… Continue Reading →

Invitation – Meeting Twenty years after ’92-’93 in Bombay – June 2

Dear Friends, Dec 2012-Jan 2013 marks twenty years of the shocking, violent, horrifying days of Dec 92-Jan 93. Those of us who were in this city in those days witnessed something that we probably could not even imagine. Those were… Continue Reading →

In the name of honour: Book explores nature of honour crimes and domestic violence

KARACHI: The first step in fighting honour crimes is to accept their existence in the society and understand the nature of the crime. “We need to accept that such crimes exist and that they are more prevalent in certain cultures… Continue Reading →

Haryana 12-week pregnant women cannot teach #WTFnews

Sukhbir Siwach, TNN Apr 28, 2012, CHANDIGARH: New rules notified recently in Haryana bar more than 12-week pregnant teachers recruited in Haryana from joining work till they deliver and produce fitness certificates. They would not be entitled to get their salaries… Continue Reading →

Clarion Call to join for an Expose on Women and Poverty- May 10-13

In the Spring of 2012, from May 10th-13th, Women’s Economic Agenda Project (WEAP) will host the first-ever World Courts of Women on Poverty in the U.S. (WCW) to highlight the grassroots reality of the housing, jobs, and poverty crisis in this… Continue Reading →

First Arrest under the new ” Panic button system ” for Women in Argentina

BY MARIANA IGLESIAS Is the first time that this device produces the reported arrest of a man. Late last year the Metropolitan Police gave thirty panic buttons to residents of the city. Most women who had reported their partners on threats and… Continue Reading →

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