Since the December 2012 gang rape case in Delhi, many cases of violence against women and girl are being reported with frightening regularity. The shocking incident of sexual assault and brutalization of the 5 year old girl in Delhi… Continue Reading →
Suja Jones, an Indian woman, has taken her French husband to court in the city of Bangalore, India, on charges of rape of their then 3 year-old daughter. She is fighting a lonely battle. The French authorities provided continued unilateral… Continue Reading →
Kota Rajatshan, March 22, 2013 – . Now the ration dealers in rajasthan are going to motivate men and women who come to their shop for Sterlization. This March and the state health departed is searching frantically for sterilization cases to… Continue Reading →
We did it! After two weeks of fierce negotiations at the United Nations’ annual Commission on the Status of Women, on March 15 more than 130 governments committed to ending violence against women and girls, and reached strong agreements to promote gender… Continue Reading →
EPW-Vol – XLVIII No. 11, March 16, 2013 | Dhanmanjiri Sathe, Stephan Klasen, Jan Priebe, and Mithila Biniwale This study examines the impact of mandated reservations for female sarpanch (elected heads of gram panchayats) on perceptions of service delivery and… Continue Reading →
By Srilatha Batliwala Himal Mag Despite decades of tension between feminists and sex workers, it is finally becoming clear that the former has much to learn from the latter. Photo: Alessandro Vincenzi From the earliest days of ‘second wave’ feminism, the… Continue Reading →
by- Laxmi Murthy “Only justice can fill my belly, not awards,” says Bhanwari Devi in response to a question from the audience about whether or not she had been recognised by international awards. She was speaking at a meeting organised… Continue Reading →
PTI Mar 8, 2013, 10.21PM IST (Actor Rahul Bose. ) NEW DELHI: Actor activist Rahul Bose on Friday came out in favour of giving the perpetrators of last year’s Delhi gang rape a chance to reform and create a “gender… Continue Reading →
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 →
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