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2024: Love Jihad – A Socio-Political Weapon: Caste, Endogamy, and Hindutva’s Grip on gender and social boundaries in India
This article examines how "Love Jihad" reinforces caste hierarchies, Hindutva politics, and patriarchal control in India’s 2024 socio-political landscape
Woman journalist assaulted in Assam
Journalists’ association demands justice, action against accused: a movie producer and an actor
Madhya Pradesh: How will “tracking’ women and raising marriageable age to 21 keep women safe?
The state government’s scheme of tracking women for their safety and increasing the marriageable age to 21 takes state surveillance to new levels, and overlooks structural inequalities that women continue to face
Sexual harassment complaint against same gender may seem odd but it’s not improbable: Calcutta HC
The court dismissed a petition which stated that complaint under POSH Act cannot be made against person of same sex
12-year-old gang-raped, burnt to death in Muzaffarpur
Four suspects absconding, have been booked under various sections of POCSO Act, and IPC
Reopen Anganwadi Centres, ensure proper nutrition to women and children: SC
The top court held that the government has a constitutional obligation to ensure nutritional support to pregnant, lactating women and children
Women Famers still struggling for recognition
Recent comments by the CJI call for a closer inspection of women’s contribution in agriculture. As it turns out, mahila kisan have a significant role in nurturing India’s farmland.
Workers Front files petition against UP gov’t shutting down women’s helpline
The helpline 181 was launched in 2016 as a response to the Delhi gang rape incident of 2012
Madhya Pradesh: On being refused water, four gang-rape, brutalise woman with iron rod
She ran a small shop from her shanty built on a hillock in a desolate area in Sidhi district
Remove Chandramukhi Devi from NCW: Anganwadi Workers group
Group demands fast track trial of the Budaun rape and murder case, adequate compensation and a job for the victim’s family
Why did Budaun police take so long to catch rape-accused Temple priest?
Alert locals caught the accused who was hiding in the same village, and handed him over to the police
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