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, by SHARMA Kalpana
Banning a documentary does not change mindsets. A look at the furore over Leslee Udwin’s India’s Daughter.
We are so easily outraged. We get angry if someone from another country critically views what we know to be our terrible reality. We know women in India are not safe. We know there are (…)
, by KARAT Brinda
India must be one of the few countries in the world where its government bans the television broadcast of a documentary film without even seeing it. India’s Daughter, a documentary film made by Leslee Udwin about the horrific rape and murder of a young woman in December 2012, was to be (…)
, by Radical Socialist (India)
The incidence of police torture on a woman at Kalamadanga village under Budbud police station in Bardhaman district of West Bengal, is a grim reminder that the “normalisation” of state violence, including, or better to say particularly, violence on women, has continued unabated regardless of (…)
, by PANDEY Avinash, PANDEY Sandeep
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-ART-095-2014 November 14, 2014
An Article by the Asian Human Rights Commission
INDIA: Sterilising women to death
A doctor conducted sterilization surgeries on 83 women in 5 hours in an abandoned hospital with no infrastructure. The women were made to lay on floor (…)
, by BURKE Jason
Husband of one victim of botched operations speaks out as protesters take to the streets to demand chief minister’s resignation.
Thirteen women who died in a mass sterilisation campaign in India spent their last hours in “tremendous pain”, relatives have said.
About 80 women attended the (…)
, by DOANE Deborah
Birth control in India is focused on sterilisation - and health workers are pressurised to promote it, writes Deborah Doane.
The terrible tragedy of the deaths of women undergoing sterilisation in India’s Chhattisgarh state should inspire anger about the much larger issue of the anti-women (…)
, by Radical Socialist (India)
Condemn the Police Violence on the Students’ Agitation in Jadavpur University: Uphold the Right to a Campus Free of Sexual Harassment and State Terror
Radical Socialist strongly condemns the massive police crackdown on the peaceful protest of the Jadavpur University students after the midnight (…)
, by Radical Socialist (India)
DEMAND THE RESIGNATION OF TAPAS PAL FROM PARLIAMENT AND LEGAL ACTION AGAINST HIM: FIGHT THE PERSISTENCE OF POLITICAL RAPES AND THREATS OF THE SAME
Tapas Paul, film actor and in recent times a Trinamul Congress Member of Parliament, has reiterated openly the threat that many political leaders (…)
, by Amnesty International, IYER Divya
India: Authorities must impartially investigate gang-rape and murder of Dalit girls
“Members of dominant castes are known to use sexual violence against Dalit women and girls as a political tool for punishment, humiliation and assertion of power.” Divya Iyer, Amnesty International India
The (…)
, by BHADORIA Sonal
Sadly, it requires a level of shocking antics for a horrific crime as rape to register into the national consciousness, numbed by everyday stories for anybody to notice or care. After months of election coverage, this brutal gang-rape in lawless UP has not only enraged the nation, but also (…)
, by PATEL Vibhuti
Sudhatai Varde was extremely lively, cheerful person with dream of egalitarian society in her eyes. She was petite, demure in her looks, at the same time, extremely forthright, upfront and dedicated to the cause of women’s liberation. She passed away on 8th April, 2014 at the age of 84. Hers was (…)
, by KRISHNAN Kavita
Azaadi – freedom – was the slogan raised last year in the anti-rape movement. How should that azaadi translate into an anti-patriarchy manifesto for the 2014 election?
One fact stares us in the face: that ruling political formations across the board seem to wilfully refuse to accept women’s (…)
, by PATEL Vibhuti
In passing away of Prof. Ila Pathak due to breast cancer on 9-1-2014 in Ahmedabad, Gujarat has lost a dedicated social activist who stood by socially excluded sections of society, especially brutalized women. She tirelessly supported women survivors of dowry harassment, rape victims, crimes of (…)
, by Correspondent(s)
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh finally broke his long silence and gave the much-awaited statement on the demonstrations protesting the recent gang-rape of a medical student in New Delhi.
Perhaps he shouldn’t have spoken.
For, instead of soothing the seething masses, he ended up irking (…)
, by RAJALAKSHMI T.K.
In a Haryana village, intolerant parents murder their daughter and behead the boy she eloped with for violating the gotra norm.
DHARMENDER and Nidhi of Garnawathi village in Rohtak district of Haryana were in the prime of their youth. On September 17, they decided to elope and get married in (…)
, by Radical Socialist (India)
Independent Mobilisations, Resist the Unrelenting Sexual Violence on Women in West Bengal and Everywhere in India.
For the Government of India, only Delhi matters, whether it is the rape of women or the price of onions. So after having sent its managers to handle the negative fall-out of the (…)
, by IUAF
The systematic use of gang-rape as a weapon occurred in the Surat riots after the Babri Masjid demolition, and an ugly innovation was the videotaping of the gang-rapes. This was not a case of some random bystander filming the attacks, but a meticulously-planned spectacle with the venues (…)
, by PATEL Vibhuti
With passing away of Dr. Veena Mazumdar, our Veenadee the Indian Women’s movement has experienced an irreparable loss. Veenadee personified in her a far sighted and strong willed thinker and forceful speaker and convincing debater who had faith in ‘human goodness’. Her intellectual prowess did (…)
, by Radical Socialist (India)
The popular anger is being sought to be handled over the fresh round of rape cases, by a bunch of politicians trying to outdo each other in making strongly worded statements. Unfortunately they are not sitting for a test on their linguistic skills. The reality is, people are angry, not merely (…)
, by PATEL Vibhuti
Prof. Lotika Sarkar who played a central role in several path-breaking and crucial legislations for gender justice and empowerment of women during 1975-2005, passed away at the age of 86 on 23rd February 2013. In the women’s rights movement, she was known as Lotikadee. When other stalwarts of (…)
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