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#India- Woman alleges gang-rape in Delhi #Vaw

Last Updated: Sunday, March 10, 2013,  0 Tags: Woman raped,  Delhi rape, Delhi gang-rape, Delhi gang-rape,  East Delhi rape New Delhi: A 34-year-old woman on Sunday alleged that she was abducted and gang-raped by four men in a moving car in east… Continue Reading →

PRESS RELEASE- Fact Finding to assess the situation of escalated violence in Odisha

Press Release March 10th, 2013 A national-level fact-finding team consisting of civil liberties and democratic organisations and individuals visited Govindapur and Dhinkia villages of Jagatsinghpur District on the 9th of March, 2013. The objective of the visit was to assess… Continue Reading →

The feminist and the sex worker: Lessons from the Indian experience

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 →

Letters from Pussy Riot’s Prison blog #womenrights #womensday

The thoughts of a prisoner Anastasia Kirilenko 8 March 2013 Today is International Women’s Day, a holiday in Russia, though possibly with few celebrations in the penal colonies where the Pussy Riot women are being held. Open Democracy Russia is… Continue Reading →

The Irony of Iconhood: The life and times of Bhanwari Devi #Vaw #Sexualharassment #Justice

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 →

Iron Irom’s long protest penned #AFPSA #Vaw #Womenrights

DNA Correspondent l @DNA ( pic courtesy- Nitesh Mohanty at the kitab khana event) A book on Irom Sharmila reiterates the cause she is fighting for. “Irom’s story has been written in a first-person account and in a non-intellectual way… Continue Reading →

Delhi gang-rape accused must be given chance to reform #Vaw

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 →

Nashik youths develop ‘Me Against Rape’ Android app for women’s safety #Vaw

By Kul Bhushan, ET Three Nashik youths have developed an Android app called Me Against Rape that women can use as an emergency alert system. The app allows user to seek assistance from family and friends with just press of a… Continue Reading →

The Mind And Heart Of Lotika Sarkar, Legal Radical, Friend, Feminist

March 8, 2013, Usha Ramanathan   USHA RAMANATHAN via Women’s Feature Service:  We have to marvel at how the world has changed since r*** was a four letter word, and young Lotika Sarkar (1923-2013), the first woman lecturer in the Faculty of… Continue Reading →

Global thematic campaign on Gender and Reproductive Justice #Vaw

  People’s Health Movement   8th March, 2013       At the People’s Health Assembly 3 held in Cape Town, South Africa in July 2012, People’s Health Movement committed to build a campaign on gender issues through initiating separate circle… Continue Reading →

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