Gender and Sexuality

Shariat Campaign: Ulema’s Boon to Hindutva

Progressive Muslims reject AIMPLB’s 'Save Shariah' Campaign; Call for gender justice and real reforms

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

NCW member blames Badaun gangrape victim!

National Commission for Women member Chandramukhi Devi said If victim had not gone out unaccompanied in the evening, ganrape, murder would not have happened; the accused temple priest is still absconding

National women organisations demand justice for anganwadi gang-rape victim

Organisations claim that police ignored the pleas of the victim’s family to lodge the FIR

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