Date: August 5, 2020 Press Release National Women’s Organizations’ Call for Protests on August 28 Women Demand Life, Livelihood and Democracy An online meeting of the following women’s organisations– All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA), National Federation of Indian Women (NFIW), All India Progressive Women’s Association (AIPWA), Pragatisheel Mahila Sanghatan […]
Women Rights
Reflections on 8th March, 2020
Great movements are built on big issues. On March 8 this year women across the country, young and old, have risen to oppose the RSS-BJP attack on the rights enshrined in the Constitution not only their own but the people of the country at large. They are displaying the perseverance […]
Call For 8th March 2020
Intensify Struggle for Gender Equality Enshrined in Constitution! Despite over 72 years since 1947, what is the situation of gender equality in India? The question begins with sex selection operating before birth, misusing scientific advances. It continues into unequal opportunities to survive, as economic factors coupled with social bias lead […]
India’s Women at Forefront Against This Muslim Hating and Manuvadi Fascism
APARNA When the history of this period will be studied it will be written in the name of women- those girls flooding out of the universities at the head of the outpouring of students, the women cramming the streets with colour, the old, wizened ones leading mammoth blockades of […]
Call on 16th December 2019
Fast Judicial Process, Responsive Policing, Civic Facilities, Workplace Security Must For Security of Women Against Sexual Abuse A spate of incidents related to sexual violence against women in the last few weeks has turned the spotlight firmly on the need for fair, speedy trials and fast track courts. Focus has […]
Sabarimala -Equality Will Not Come From Courts
A five judge Review Bench of the Supreme Court, by a majority of three- two, on 14th November 2019, has not only reopened the earlier 4-1 verdict of the Supreme Court allowing entry of women of reproductive age into the Temple. Rather, it has drowned the limited question of allowing […]
