The MeToo movement that no one talks about
The #MeToo movement was welcome yet did not touch upon the most shocking acts of them all, #MeToo @home. Manu Shrivastava writes on the ho...Read More
Showing posts with label India. Show all posts
Showing posts with label India. Show all posts
Bill sabotages tribal women rights
Meghalaya, the north-east Indian state, is undergoing immense turmoil. Indigenous women of the state belonging to the Khasi tribe are prote...Read More
The safe place
As a girl, I had to be cautious. I remember Mom asking me to hang around with a bunch of trusted guys to ensure I was ‘safe’. But what abou...Read More
'The more you hide, the more they try to shame you'
An Update Soon after this article was published in 2016, the abusive family in question swiftly dropped the name of my family home made ...Read More
The rape that shook the nation
India has come a long way in protecting minors, though it’s almost always that isolated incident of brutal rape or gruesome murder that sha...Read More
FGM is violative of human rights
The Supreme Court bench comprising CJI Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud heard today the PIL challenging the prac...Read More
Walking the talk, even in orthodox Rajasthan
For a woman, success also means being able to live a life of dignity and self-reliance as against the orthodox and oppressive patriarchy ex...Read More
Law Commission report on 'Family Law Reform' soon
What started off as an exercise to examine the possibility of a common civil code, as was evident in the release of the Law Commission’s ‘Q...Read More
Gender and Justice
The Supreme Court of India has been very proactive when it comes to women and child welfare. The triple talaq and the reforms brought in af...Read More
Even a father cannot 'stalk'
The Varnika Kundu case brought ‘Stalking’ back into the spotlight it belongs. The law should be used to book ‘stalking fathers’ too, writes...Read More
Modi's 'Toilets First' stand vindicated
The dearth of functional ladies’ toilets at the city’s railway stations underlines the nation’s need for the same. The Badaun rape vindicat...Read More
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