Women

National organisations come to the defence of SHG women, demanding the withdrawal of decision to collect outstanding loans from the marginalised.

“It was important and necessary for women to speak up. Women are taught that silence is a virtue,” Priya Ramani told a Delhi court hearing MJ Akbar’s defamation allegations 

Here’s a look at the conditions in which female prisoners are lodged in Indian prisons, as per NCRB 2019 report

The portal AltNews has denied allegations and said this is an attempt to hound Zubair through the ‘misuse of legal apparatus’

The third case of rape and murder in just three weeks, reported from the Lakhimpur Kheri district, the victim was 3 years old

To fight the growth of fascist and neo-liberal forces, 400 human rights and women's groups call for a nation-wide campaign

Auto-drivers hailed as warriors during the lockdown period continue to suffer from a dearth of adequate wages, lack of family support

As police investigate the murder of a young woman in Giridih, this year’s witch-hunting toll in Jharkhand reached 12

Bandit queen-turned-politician Phoolan Devi was born on August 10, 1963 in a Mallah family in Jalaun district of UP. Following a troubled childhood and child marriage, Phoolan joined a gang of dacoits where too she faced abuse, and was raped by a group of dacoits from the higher castes after being held hostage. After she escaped, she collected her gang and killed 22 members of the village where she was raped. Two years later, she surrendered and was shifted to jail. After being in jail for 11 years, she was released on parole in 1994. In 1996, she became an MP from Mirzapur constituency in UP, and was re-elected in 1999. On July26,  2001, Phoolan Devi was shot dead by three gunmen outside her house in Delhi.

Doyen of feminist politics, academic and activist who spent years working on healthcare in remote tribal regions, mostly in central India passes away in Kolkata on August 9