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Pakistan’s education policy blatantly anti-minority, anti-women
The outcome of the school curriculum reason behind religious extremism, crimes against women
SC mediators arrive at Shaheen Bagh, gov’t stooges try to delegitimise protests
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Pro-regime TV channels and social media trolls attempt to question authenticity of protest alleging Shaheen Bagh women were ‘tutored’ by CJP secretary Teesta Setalvad
SC’s landmark judgment: Equal roles for women in the Army
The SC ruled that all women army officers are eligible for permanent commissions, commanding roles
Can’t have rules violating students’ dignity: NCW
NCW representatives met girls of the Gujarat college who were allegedly forced to strip by the authorities to prove that they were menstruating
Four, including Principal, booked for humiliation of 68 girls in Bhuj hostel
The authorities of the SSGI had demanded that the 68 girls prove that they were menstruating
Rein’state’ed – The case of the ‘exchanged’ women at Partition
The paradigm of the “recovery” and “restoration” of women was a form of biological citizenship, as it entailed not only determining the religion (at birth) of a woman, almost as if it were a biological characteristic, but also her biological status as a woman whose body had been violated, impregnated, or otherwise defiled by union with a male of another religious community
Protests against Delhi police brutalities on women students at Jamia, inaction at Gargi College
It was reported that at least 10 women protestors at Jamia were hit on their private parts by the Delhi Police
Picture of two Elderly Women at Shaheen Bagh, is worth thousand words
Divided by class and privilege, but united by compassion and patriotism
Draped in yellow, Malerkotla rises against the CAA-NPR-NRC
The women, students and farmers in the town are planning for a mega rally against the CAA-NPR-NRC on February 16
Never-the-less, she persisted: The true meaning of Mumbai Bagh
Another group of women protesters who refuse to back down are taking a hostile regime head on with decidedly peaceful means.
Male troops not ‘mentally schooled’ to accept orders from women: Center
Government cites physiological differences and peril of being taken as prisoners of war to refuse command posts to women officers
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