Gender and Sexuality

One woman against a thousand superstitions, Birubala Rabha’s battle against the superstition of ‘Witch-Hunting’

Though this pioneering feminist activist breathed her last on May 13, 2024, her work with the Thakurvilla Mahila Samiti and Missiom Birubala has been recognized internationally and May 13 has been declared Anti-Superstition Day in Assam

Samajwadi Party fields transgender Gulshan Bindu as mayor candidate in Ayodhya

Samajwadi Party has declared its list of candidates for...

Egyptian MPs seek to ban gay sex, gay social activities and rainbow flags

Amid the continuing moral panic over homosexuality in Egypt,...

India’s first transgender Sarpanch vows to turn her village into an ideal village

A village in interior Maharashtra creates historyGnyaneshwar Kamble with...

Egypt: Somewhere over the rainbow there are police ready to pounce

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Taiwan, 1st Asian Country to Legalize Gay Marriage, Shouldn’t India Follow Suit?

In a landmark judgement delivered on May 23, judges...

‘Concentration camps’ opened for Gay Men in Chechnya

Chechnyan President Ramzan Kadyrov. Photo credit: Getty imagesRussian newspapers...

Women marching worldwide revive a long-sought dream: global feminism

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Understand the Struggle: Exceptional Achievements of Trans-peoples

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Assam Border Police cracks down on residents battling citizenship rights without due process, pushes 145 locals over the border?

Between the night of Friday, May 23, and Monday, May 26, Assam police launched a sweeping crackdown across all 33 districts—including Barak Valley, Central, Lower, and North Assam—detaining nearly 300 men and women without notice or legal justification. Families and advocates were given no information about their whereabouts, in clear violation of constitutional and legal norms. While about 150 were reportedly released within days, unconfirmed reports to CJP’s ground team suggest that 145 individuals—still fighting for their citizenship rights—were forcibly pushed across the border, left stranded and vulnerable in the no man’s land between the two countries

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