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‘We are considered servants, not humans’: Women of Jai Bhim Nagar reveal the violence of domestic work

As the first rays of dawn hit the broad, grey-bricked footpaths of Powai’s Hiranandani locality, Darshana begins her day. Inside the blue hues of her current “home”— the tarpaulin-covered dwelling within which she, her family, and hundreds of others rendered homeless by the BMC-led demolition of their houses, have been living for the past five months—she starts her day with work. She washes dishes, cleans the cement side-walk on which rest the mattresses her family and she sleep on, and prepares meals on wood-fired chulas using the limited utensils she was able to salvage before the kitchen in her home was destroyed by bulldozers. By the time the sun shines bright, she has readied her two children, fed them, and sent them to school.

Evictions & sexual harassment and livelihood loss affect women street vendors: Survey Covid19 Lockdown

Thrice oppressed, women street vendors have turned to exhausting personal savings for survival besides bearing the overarching burden of household chores reveals this survey by ISST-Janpahal in Delhi

Two women rescued from human traffickers in Jharkhand

The organization has demanded an investigation into human trafficking networks and sustainable employment options for migrating women

Apathy kills Agra woman’s unborn baby

The healthcare facility where she was taken after going into labour, asked her husband to first get surgical gloves as they were not available there

Dilution of Section 498A belittles the ongoing domestic abuse suffered by women

The stance of some courts of law on sec. 498A of the IPC, making overarching general observations (of possible misuse) to a provision that has afforded relief to women experiencing violence within the home and family, retards the recognition that women’s rights movement has received and in fact, takes us back decades, to the 1970s

1100 feminists write to PM against targeting of anti-CAA women protesters

Eminent women intellectuals denounce false narratives that try to link anti-CAA protests with the violence in Delhi, demand an immediate stop to targeting of Muslim women activists

Lockdown through the gender lens

As we gear up for yet another extension of the national lockdown in the wake of COVID-19 crisis, the gendered impact of the current state of affairs ranges from domestic violence to loss of livelihoods.

Delhi HC directs govt to set up helpline for pregnant women

Delhi government assured timely assistance of ASHA workers, in cooperation with the central government.

Plea in SC seeking repatriation of 250 pregnant nurses and doctors from Saudi

The petition states that they do not have proper medical access and that they need to be with their family in such times.

17-year-old allegedly gangraped in Aligarh, ends life after two days of incident

According to media reports, she was unhappy with the feeble punishment given to her perpetrators

Lockdown impact: Distraught mothers, dead babies and more

Due to the ill-planned lockdown, many have suffered indescribable distress and continue to do so

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