By Ajitha Menon “Enjoy..! It’s just like being raped, yaar! You can shout or you can enjoy. Nothing more than that”… This was what matinee idol Dev alias Deepak Adhikari, Trinamool Congress candidate from Ghatal constituency in West Bengal, had… Continue Reading →
By Swapna Majumdar WeNews correspondent Friday, May 16, 2014 India’s marathon national elections have added to the collective toll of vicious, sometimes deadly, violence against political women. Only 8 percent of this year’s candidates were women and advocates point to… Continue Reading →
By Emilio Godoyl The Ajusco forest, one of Mexico City’s green lungs and water sources. Credit: Emilio Godoy/IPS MEXICO CITY, May 8 2014 (IPS) – The rural communities of San Miguel and Santo Tomás Ajusco, to the south of Mexico City, are… Continue Reading →
Photo: Hannah McNeish/IRIN South Sudan’s ongoing violence puts women at risk of sexual and gender based violence. JUBA, 13 May 2014 (IRIN) – Sexual and gender-based violence might not be a new phenomenon in South Sudan, but the current crisis… Continue Reading →
The Huffington Post | by Mallika Rao Every so often, the same mysterious image seems to pop up on the internet. The black-and-white portrait looks to be at least a hundred years old, and yet, it is of an Indian woman, a Japanese… Continue Reading →
By Shobhaa De, Mumbai Mirror | Apr 12, 2014, 02.28 AM IST Important disclosure: I have asked approximately a hundred women this idiotic question: “Would you marry Narendra Modi?” I have even asked myself the same one (errr… maybe he goes for older… Continue Reading →
By Varun Singh|Posted 11-Apr-2014- MIday In a controversial statement, Maha SP chief says that if any woman, regardless of consent, has physical relations with a man, she deserves death penalty. WE HAVE THE AUDIO CONVERSATION In a bizarre and grotesque… Continue Reading →
AlterNet / By Alex Kane Pastor Steven Anderson said that female congregants should not speak up while church is going on. Photo Credit: ptnphoto/Shutterstock.com March 25, 2014 | Steven Anderson is a fundamentalist Arizona pastor who first made headlines when he said he prayed… Continue Reading →
By Swapna Majumdar WeNews correspondent Thursday, March 20, 2014 For the first time, 350 women’s and civil society organizations in the influential state of Tamil Nadu are uniting against national parliamentary candidates who are “gender unjust.” Their coalition demands rights… Continue Reading →
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