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Resignation in Protest: MP woman judge quits over elevation of senior she accused of harassment and discrimination

In a powerful act of protest, Judge Aditi Gajendra Sharma resigns after the elevation of a senior she accused of caste-based harassment, calling out the judiciary’s silence, systemic bias, and betrayal of its own ideals

Why the world needs a UN treaty to combat violence against women

Violence against women is one of the most prevalent...

Treat Dalit Women as Equals before the Law: Radhika Vemula on Women’s Day

Last year, on the 118th Death Anniversary of Savitribai...

Democracy, Nationalism and Nazism

  The recent events in Hyderabad and Jawaharlal Nehru universities...

Sunderban: Breaking the Chains of a Historic Injustice

A public hearing brigs to focus the ongoing struggle...

The story I never got to tell – of rape and torture by the Indian army

  Twenty five years ago this February 23, 2016 ,...

Irom Sharmila’s Anguished Appeal to Women of India

Irom Sharmila on a hunger fast for the past...

Entering a forbidden terrain: Women Qazis, ‘Auraton ki Shariah Adalat’, what next?

Why the Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan is throwing one...

Attacking the Defenders of Freedom, Chhatisgarh: Lawyers and Journos being Forced Out

   Days after Scroll contributor Malini Subramaniam at Bastar in...

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