महिलाये
December 7, 2016
Each one of us can take meaningful action to end the scourge of gender-based violence
All men should stand up to violence against women /BIGSTOCK
To all fathers, sons, and husbands:
Every daughter has a father; every son has a mother; every husband, a wife. As daughters, mothers, and wives, we call upon the men of Bangladesh to stand with the girls and women they...
December 7, 2016
There was a 24% rise in rural women accessing public healthcare between 2004 and 2014, according to a new report by Brookings India, a think tank, significant in a country where half the rural population uses private healthcare, which is four times costlier.
Overall, there was a 6% rise in dependence on public healthcare for out-patients and 7% for in-patients over the decade ending...
December 6, 2016
देवरिया: शहर में आज महिलाओं ने कहा कि प्रधान मंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी जी अब हमें हमारे बुरे दिन ही लौटा दीजिए। हमें आपके आज के दिन नहीं चाहिए, यह दिन रात्रि से भी बदतर हो गया है।आज यहां महिला एकता शक्ति दल की हजारों महिलाओं ने अपने राष्ट्रीय अध्यक्ष मन्नू तिवारी के नेतृत्व में शहर में प्रदर्शन कर परिसर में जिलाधिकारी कार्यालय का घेराव कर कहा कि नोटबन्दी के कारण गरीबों की मौत हो रही है।
मन्नू...
December 5, 2016
The gangrape and after, the battle for justice has been long and lonely. The victim has had to leave home, her husband has lost his job. Their only hope is justice will be swift and exemplary
The memories haunt her daily. “Din raat bas dimaag mein wahi chalta rehta hai, har waqt dar lagta rehta hai (I keep thinking about it all day, I feel scared all the time)....
December 2, 2016
Feminist lesbians have been passionate activists from the beginning of the movement against men’s violence and remain an inspiration for women to live independently of men.
Lesbian feminists with a banner "I love, I trust, I value Myself: Stop Sexual Violence Against Women". Belgrade.
I came out as a lesbian in the feminist encounters at the end of the eighties in Yugoslavia...
November 30, 2016
Various Hindu organisations today protested in front of the Padmanabha Swamy shrine here against the decision to relax the dress code for women, permitting devotees to wear the traditional Indian salwar kameez and churidar while worshipping at the temple.
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They were protesting against the decision of the Executive Officer (EO) K N Sateesh, allowing women to enter the temple...
November 27, 2016
Statement issued at a 'Pinjra Tod' Winter Afternoon In Jamia Millia Islamia, November 17, 2016
A fiery anonymous open letter by a women resident of Jamia Millia Islamia to the VC on the arbitrary cancellation of late nights in August last year, marks the inception of Pinjra Tod as a movement. It has been an incredible year of reaching out to each other, connecting,...
November 18, 2016
Kurdish women in one of the strongest and most radical women’s movements in the world are taking a battering from the Turkish state with impunity - as Europe looks the other way
Ayla Akat Ata, spokeswoman of Free Women’s Congress (KJA), 8th March celebration 2014 when she was still an MP.
‘’We will resist and resist until we win!“ chants Sebahat...
November 12, 2016
A large section of women in India are out of the banking system, and the currency withdrawal has hit them hard.
The helpline rang all day at the women’s crisis centre in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, on Wednesday. Counsellors took calls from women wondering what to do with their hard-earned savings after Prime Minister Narenda Modi in a surprise television address to the nation the...
November 12, 2016
A three-day training camp of the Rashtra Sevika Samiti opens in Delhi with talk of matri shakti – but only within the confines of a family.
For a snapshot of how the all-male Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has kept its women’s wing relegated to a domestic role and away from all issues of gender justice, visit the three-day training camp of the Rashtra Sevika Samiti, which was...