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October 22, 2016
As the dust surrounding the issue of abolition of triple talaq and reform in Islam refuses to settle, another altercation took place on Friday in Govandi, (Mumbai), where local women running a signature campaign against the controversial practice of instant divorce were allegedly ill-treated and abused verbally by some of the locals.
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Women activists from...
October 22, 2016
On 20th October a demonstration was held at Arts Faculty in north campus of Delhi University. Attended by more than a hundred students from universities all across Delhi and outside, predominantly women, it was a protest against the members of the political outfit ABVP for their alleged harassment of the students on 23rd September night, when the group had organized a Night March. On the...
October 21, 2016
For all the 22 years of his young life, Ajith (name changed to protect identity) has had to hide his sexual preference for male partners. The management graduate, who works at a hotel in Chennai, comes from Kambam, a small Tamil Nadu village.
Participants attend a gay pride parade, to promote gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender rights, in Mumbai. A recent study found that of 8,549 men...
October 21, 2016
It is time for the Muslim community to introspect on how things have come to such a pass. Practices like triple talaq, halala and polygamy, steeped in patriarchal and medieval narratives, can hardly be regarded as just and fair.
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In the background of a bunch of writ petitions filed before the Supreme Court by some Muslim women’s organisations and individual victims...
October 20, 2016
With the annual national conference of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) scheduled to be held in Kolkota next month, imams from mosques across India are to be directed to create awareness among Muslims through sermons every Friday against the currently prevalent triple talaq (instant divorce) practice. They will are also to teach Muslims the rights granted to women in Islam and the...
October 18, 2016
For the BJP, the Uniform Civil Code is Simply a Stick to Bash Muslims With
In 1951, India's first Law Minister Dr. B.R. Ambedkar fought to get our parliament to pass the Hindu Code Bill, a bill he had drafted with great love and care which would have granted equal rights to Hindu women denied to them by tradition and religious practice. Had this bill been passed in time the logical...
October 18, 2016
The ironical problem is that amidst all this debate, it is the BJP which is coming out as a supporter and champion of gender justice.
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The latest controversy over the Law Commission questionnaire eliciting responses over the viability of a uniform civil code has raised many questions. But at the outset, it should be made clear that there is nothing wrong in the...
October 17, 2016
पिछले दिनों दिल्ली में कांस्टीट्यूशन क्लब में हुए विधवा रैंप और फैशन शो के साथ ही एक और बेड़ी टूटती दिखी। आयोजक सुलभ इंटरनेशनल का मकसद चाहे जो भी हो, लेकिन इस कार्यक्रम के बहाने उस रूढ़ि के टूटने की शुरुआत तो हुई कि विधवाओं को रंगीन कपड़े और साज-श्रंगार से दूर रहना चाहिए।
हिंदू धर्म में खासकर उच्च जातियों की पुरानी परंपरा यही रही है कि महिला चाहे वह कितनी भी उम्र की क्यों न हो, पति की मौत...
October 17, 2016
महासमुंद: छत्तीसगढ़ पुलिस महासमुंद जिले के पिरदा गाँव में चलती कार में हुए गैंगरेप के मामले में स्थानीय बीजेपी नेता के बेटे प्रिंस सलूजा की तलाश कर रही है।। आरोप है कि उसने 11 अक्टूबर को दो दोस्तों के साथ मिलकर मंगलवार को 36 साल की महिला के साथ सामूहिक बलात्कार किया, और वीडियो भी बनाया। फरार आरोपी प्रिंस सलूजा बसना के पूर्व मंडल महामंत्री और भाजपा नेता जसबीर सिंह सलूजा का बेटा है...
'I'm sorry we've come to this': Perfumer's murder reiterates the dangers faced by women living alone
October 15, 2016
'I'm sorry we've come to this': Perfumer's murder reiterates the dangers faced by women living alone
The funeral of 39-year-old perfumer and photographer Monika Ghurde at the Santa Inez cremation ground in the Goan capital of Panjim on Sunday was a somber affair. Attended by her mother, brother, and former husband along with about 40 of her closest friends, Ghurde...