Jan 23, 2014, 12.10 AM IST No country’s path to growth and development can bypass the goalposts of women’s empowerment and Women’s safety is a prerequisite to both, besides being a fundamental human right. Most political parties have accepted this… Continue Reading →
NDTV | Edited by Nadim Asrar | Updated: December 27, 2013 New Delhi: At least four women gave birth in the open yesterday night after their hutments were demolished in a drive conducted at the peak of winters in… Continue Reading →
Think Progress / By Tara Culp-Ressler GOP lawmakers certainly failed our women this year. 2013 hasn’t been a great year for reproductive rights. Ever since 2010, abortion opponents have imposed a flurry of state-level legislation intended to slowly chip away at abortion access,… Continue Reading →
By SONIA FALEIRO, NYT Vadodara, INDIA — The mother, an animal herder in the western Indian state of Gujarat, watched in horror as her 3-year-old daughter was snatched from her. The kidnapper, an upper-caste woman from a nearby village who… Continue Reading →
3 December 2013 To The Chairman National Human Rights Commission of India Manav Adhikar Bhawan Block-C, GPO Complex, INA New Delhi – 110023 Respected Sir Hereby I want to place another incident of illegal arrest and prosecution… Continue Reading →
Friday, Nov 29, 2013, 19:55 IST | Place: Delhi | Agency: DNA Webdesk Ruchi Kumar In a handout poster, Delhi BJP MLA takes blame for lacuna in women safety. Quite literally! The pamphlet issued by the opposition party leader questions… Continue Reading →
Hindustan TimesA modicum of sensitivity is the least we expect from our elected representatives in an atmosphere vitiated by growing sexual violence against women. Not so from Samajwadi Party leader Naresh Agarwal who has taken the Tarun Tejpal case as an… Continue Reading →
November 24, 2013 By John Riddell. The tenth annual Historical Materialism conference, held in London November 7–10, was younger and more diverse in composition than its predecessors. Probably the world’s leading gathering of Marxist theorists, the conference, this year… Continue Reading →
Mumbai Mirror Nov 24, 2013, (Three survivors of sexual…) MUMBAI: It’s been a year of shame, but also hope. Littered with cases of sexual harassment at the workplace, 2013 is about to wrap up on a dark note. What’s heartening though,… Continue Reading →
Authors/Editor(s): UN Women and OHCHR Women’s access to, use of and control over land and other productive resources are essential to ensuring their right to equality and to an adequate standard of living. Throughout the world,… Continue Reading →
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