Category Women Rights
Policies and programmes must change restrictive gender norms in order to meaningfully impact the lives of women and girls. by ANNA REGO, SHAGUN SABARWAL In many societies, women’s choices around education, marriage, employment, and childbearing are severely limited and often prescriptive. Within… Continue Reading →
By Rajiv Shah ,Counterview A jStudy by a Netherlands-based non-profit, Aris, “Seeds of Oppression Wage sharecropping in Bt cottonseed production in Gujarat, India”, has said that a new form of bondage, or forced labour, exists in North India’s Bt cottonseed farms, in… Continue Reading →
For well over a year now, nearly 76 million women members of self-help groups in rural India have helped in efforts to manage the health and nutrition crises caused by the pandemic — from running community kitchens to making masks…. Continue Reading →
After 10 years of writing about capitalism I saw that the erasure of women is not only palpable, it’s bound to my own flesh and bloodJane Gleeson-WhiteSat 31 Jul 2021 … is the economics profession a functionary and tool of… Continue Reading →
by-Sania Muzamil The history of women in the workplace over the last one hundred years or so has been a constantly evolving domain, affected and determined by the changing scenarios of global issues and international relations. As nations birthed through… Continue Reading →
by- Sania Muzamil After the second World War ended, and an apparently peaceful era began, a dismissal of the unsolved issues with respect to nationality and citizenship became an overarching practice. Conflict zones all over the world began to be… Continue Reading →
Gender equality is achievable and an imperative The Generation Equality Forum in Paris on 30 June-2 July 2021 marks the 25th anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action on Women. The 1995 event was a milestone for advancing women’s rights,1 but… Continue Reading →
SHIMLA: Observing that pregnant women need bail, not jail, the Himachal Pradesh high court allowed on Saturday the petition of a pregnant woman accused in a Narcotic Drugs & Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act case. Justice Anoop Chitkara also said that temporary bail… Continue Reading →
July 2021 As per the Sexual Harassment of Women (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 (PoSH Act) read with the Sexual Harassment of Women (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Rules 2013 (Rules), every employer including Government/Non-Government organisation employing ten or more… Continue Reading →
17-year-old girl from Uttar Pradesh’s Devariya district was killed by her grandfather and uncles over wearing jeans in the village. The grandfather and an auto driver, who had helped in disposing of the body, were arrested. The incident was reported… Continue Reading →