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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

No country for children: 35-year-old rapes, murders 8-year-old in Karnataka

The accused approached the girl near her school and lured her away with chocolates

NHRC, Delhi High Court spring into action, pull up governments on women’s safety measures, utilisation of Nirbhaya Fund

The executive has failed by not implementing policies and governments have failed to keep the executive in check as there is no monitoring of implementation being carried out. In this atmosphere, there is always room left for perpetrators of crime to dare to commit such heinous crimes as the preventive machinery in the State crumbles.

Revisiting the Justice Verma Committee report of 2013: #JusticeForRapeVictims

Had the recommendations of the report been seriously considered and implemented, the Delhi crime may have been prevented in Hyderabad.

Five Actions You Can Take To End Gender Based Violence

A few days ago, a veterinary doctor was gang-raped,...

Reject culture of misogyny, democratise socio-cultural spaces: #Justice4RapeVictims

The horrendous rape and murder of Hyderabad's vet doctor...

Stop using rape cases for communal polarization

Four persons, Mohammed Pasha, Shiva, Naveen, Chennakesavulu who work...

Sikh Kirtan by women- the history, the way forward

The Punjab Govt. has recently allowed women to offer Kirtan inside the Golden temple. Despite no religious precedent which decreed excluding them in the first place, where do women stand in Sikhism? How do cultural norms, gender inequality, caste privilege, and religion intersect?

WCD Ministry gives unsatisfactory answers on efforts to protect women and children

In response to an unstarred question made during the Lok Sabha session by four Members of Parliament, Minister of Women and Child Development (WCD) Smriti Irani appeared to only relay old, publicly available data on the issues.

Dalit woman found dead, family alleges gang-rape: Kancheepuram

CPI (M) and VCK allege that police is protecting ‘upper-caste’ perpetrators

Maternal mortality down to 122 per 1 lakh, still highest in the world

In response to an unstarred question asked in the Lok Sabha as to incidence of maternal death occurring in the country, Minister of State of Health and Family Welfare Mr. Ashwini Kumar Choubey said that the Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR), i.e., death of mothers at the time of giving birth, has come down to 122 deaths per 1,00,000 live births.

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Bihar: SC frowns on disproportionate punishment of opposition legislators & its democratic consequences

In a crucial case involving the summary suspension of the Bihar Legislative Council (BLC) of an RJD member (Dr. Sunil Kumar Singh), the Supreme Court, by distinguishing between "proceedings in the legislature" and "legislative decisions", and held that the latter can be subject to judicial scrutiny, especially when they affect fundamental rights. This creative interpretation of Article 212 of the Constitution also meant that the re-election to the ‘suspended post’ notified by the ECI was struck down