Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by MARIK Soma
In my talk, I will address globalisation as an economic process, and ask how far that has been gender neutral. Has it weakened patriarchy and created greater employment opportunities and greater equality for women in India or just equalized poverty? There is a need for an assessment from a (…)
, by MARIK Soma
In my talk, I will address globalisation as an economic process, and ask how far that has been gender neutral. Has it weakened patriarchy and created greater employment opportunities and greater equality for women in India or just equalized poverty? There is a need for an assessment from a (…)
, by PATEL Vibhuti
The front runner of Women’s Studies in India and the creator of a model women’s studies centre that combined the ethos of women’s studies and women’s movement at the SNDT University, Mumbai, Neera Desai passed away on 25 June.
Neera Desai was born in 1925 to a middle class Gujarati family (…)
, by AIPWA
A meeting of the National Executive (NEC) of the All India Progressive Women’s Association (AIPWA) was held on July 5-6 at Vijaywada, presided over by AIPWA National President Srilata Swaminathan, and conducted by its General Secretary Meena Tiwary. The meeting deliberated on the situation (…)
, by CPI (ML) Liberation
Once again, the debate over Women’s Reservation Bill has resurfaced, in the wake of the President’s speech promising to enact 33% quota for women in assemblies and parliament as well as 50% quota in panchayats. After 13 years of delays and vacillations, the women’s movement and progressive (…)
, par CPI (ML) Liberation
Kamala Suraiya (Kamala Das) is no more. She passed away on May 31 at the age of 75. She was a pioneer who blazed a new path for women in Indian writing – both in Malayalam and in English. Not only lovers of literature and poetry, but also the women’s movement will mourn the loss of this (…)
, by AIPWA
The Tamilnadu Governments introduced All Women Police Station (AWPS) in 1973 so that the crimes against women are handled sensitively and effectively. As of present there are 196 All-Women Police Stations in the State. The Government claims that this is a big step towards rendering justice to (…)
, by PATEL Vibhuti
Introduction
It is with the firm belief that if we don’t engender our understanding on fundamentalism and communalism, women’s lives will be endangered, I am making this humble presentation.
Articles 14 and 15 of the Constitution of India have guaranteed freedom and equality to women (…)
, by SAHAYA Amita
Introduction
This paper will review the historical perspective of women’s work and development from its early stages where women merely featured as an ad hoc addition in development, to the gradual process of factoring gender equity as a definite component in policy making. It shall trace its (…)
, by PATEL Vibhuti
Paper presented at a Seminar on Women’s Leadership in Micro Finance: Issues & Challenges organized by Indian School of Micro Finance for Women on 11-12 August, 08.
Introduction Nineties was a difficult decade for both the urban and rural poor women as women were rapidly losing their (…)
, by CPI (ML) Liberation
The Commission of Sati (Prevention) Act was passed in 1987 following the shocking immolation of a young woman, Roop Kanwar in Deorala, Rajasthan. Glorification of sati is a crime in the eyes of this law. Yet, recently a member of the ’secular’, ’pro-women’ UPA Cabinet, Minister of Mines Sis Ram (…)
, by PATEL Vibhuti
Contribution presented at The Western Regional Consultation on Women’s Right to Land and Housing organised by Indo Global Social Service Society, Pune and Action Aid India on 9-4-08 in Pune.
Women constitute of ½ of world’s population and do 2/3 of world’s work. In return, Women get 1/10th (…)
, by RATH Dwarika Nath
The gang rape of Bilkis Bano and so many others in Gujarat 2002 was part of a cold-blooded campaign of genocide, justified as a ‘reaction’ to Godhra. One wonders how Modi would explain the systematic and, it would seem, habitual rape of poor dalit women students in his glorious, ‘growing’ (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
This is with reference to the news column published in The Times of India (July 10, 2007) regarding the sexual harassment case in Gandhi Bhawan against its director, Bidyut Chakrabarty, who is also the head of the department of political science, and dean, social sciences, University of (…)
, by GROVER Shalini
Review of: Contentious Marriages, Eloping Couples: Gender, Caste and Patriarchy in Northern India by Prem Chowdhry; Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2007; pp 448, Rs 695.
Prem Chowdhry’s new book synthesises her pioneering work (1994, 1997, 2004a, 2004b), addressing gender violence (…)
, by PRASAD Raekha , RAMESH Randeep
Daughters aren’t wanted in India. So many female foetuses are illegally aborted that baby boys now hugely outnumber baby girls, while a government minister has begged parents to abandon their children rather than kill them. What does this mean for the country’s future, ask Raekha Prasad and (…)
, by MENON Ritu
Killing women to redeem honour has no pedigree in India. These dishonourable killings leap across caste and creed: Hindu, Sikh and Muslim, are united in their agreement that avenging male honour entails killing one’s own women. Feminist publisher Ritu Menon writes on a nation’s shame. (…)
, by PATEL Vibhuti
Abstacts
During the last one decade, women’s movement in India has faced sharper polarisation due to rise of cultural nationalism, that uses women to score points for identity politics, coupled with economic liberalisation that is wooing the elite women and breaking the backs of the working (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
Open letter by Vikram Seth and others
To build a truly democratic and plural India, we must collectively fight against laws and policies that abuse human rights and limit fundamental freedoms.
This is why we, concerned Indian citizens, support the overturning of Section 377 of the (…)
, by SANGHVI Vir
In the late Seventies, Tom Robinson, the gay rock singer, would introduce his bitter-sweet Glad to be Gay with the words, “This is a medical song. It is about a disease. Or at least it is about something that the World Health Organisation regards as a diseaseŠ”
That was then. In 1981, the (…)
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