Bangladeshi women who face harassment from males lack any access to avenues of social or legal redress. The suicide of Simi Banu tragically highlights the need for the law to protect not only female 'modesty', but the very right to equality.
Once only passive witnesses to public violence, Hindu Gujarati women have taken a prominent role in the ongoing attacks on Muslims in the state. While the roots of this phenomenon
Saying "land to the tiller" is gender-insensitive. "Land to those who work on it" is not.
Review of AIDWA Booklets
At a time when academics, non-governmental
It is generally accepted that the media plays a vital role in disseminating information and in forming public opinion. However, given that information exists within the ambit of ideas, this
Shobhano Bhattacharji, o Delhi-based educationist, visits Lahore and Islamabad with a group of Indian women interested in peace with Pakistan. This was the first crossing of so-called peace groups after
The popular notion that the indentured workers were primarily male is a misinformed one. Women made up at least a third–as required by government statute–and sometimes close to
The 'Nepali women' you get to know from the development blurb are conveniently homogenous. All are equally poor, illiterate and oppressed.
In the struggle against patriarchy, the idea
The regulation of female sexuality in film has always been central to defining India's national identity.
In 1954, 13,000 women of Delhi presented a petition to Jawaharlal
Women are the silent sufferers in the war over Kashmir.
Women have been the worst hit in the war in Kashmir. They have been killed in crossfire, shot in public
It was with a bit of fanfare that the Indian government-owned General Insurance Company (GIC) announced its Rajrajeshwari Women Welfare Insurance Scheme on 17 March. This was an insurance plan
It does not matter whether they are Muslim or Hindu, conservative forces in Afghanistan, Pakistan and India seem to have found a common enemy: Women.
One of the first things
