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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...
November 10, 2016
Twenty four hours of having Donald Trump as the president elect and the streets of the United States of America (USA) look different. Shaun King, an American civil rights activist shared a number of screenshots of women sharing their experience of racism, misogyny and religious intolerance by Trump supporters, on the very next day of the election.
A Muslim woman, in...
November 10, 2016
The state plea to change its position was resisted by the temple through senior advocate KK Venugopal. The case will now be taken up on February 20.
The Kerala government has changed its stance, once again, in the case before the Supreme Court of India relating to entry of women of all ages in Sabarimala temple. The state government told the court on November 7 that it is ready to allow...
November 9, 2016
Poor implementation of the law against sex selective abortion, the Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act of 1994 remains a pressing problem in the country, ruled the Supreme Court
The selective abortion of female foetuses is a social ill of huge dimensions and the pervasive prenatal sex determination tests a means used for this selective action. A Bench of...
November 9, 2016
Sri Lanka has been lauded for equal access to education for girls and boys, but textbooks and traditions continue to play a role in perpetuating inequitable gender norms and stereotypes.
Sri Lanka has in some circles been considered a model of post-colonial gender equality compared to its South Asian counterparts due to high literacy rates for men and women, 97.7 and 98.6 respectively,...
November 8, 2016
The ugly patriarchal politics of ‘Triple Talaq’ or unilateral ‘instant divorce’ through which Indian Muslim men (specifically Sunnis who follow the Hanafi school of Islamic jurisprudence), can divorce their wives by pronouncing the word ‘talaq’ thrice in a single sentence, has appeared once again in mainstream politics. In this board game played over Muslim...