In the convoluted world of media and sports, where corruption and distrust reign supreme, the Paris Olympics has delivered one of its saddest spectacles. Two women boxers, Imane Khelif from Algeria and Lin Yu Ting from Taiwan, found themselves accused of being men based on nothing more than Russian hearsay. Despite the murky origins of […]
We hear success stories of male prisoners who are rehabilitated and taught vocational skills, but this are rarely heard so for women. Women prisoners are an ignored in all sections, the penal system is far less kind to them than it is to men. The CHRI (Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative) found that when there is […]
Sex trafficking is a major issue in India. Almost every year, thousands of girls across the country are sold into sex slavery. Human trafficking is the third largest organized crime after drugs and the arms trade across the globe. Close to 80% of the human trafficking across the world is done for sexual exploitation and […]
Imagine yourself on Platform No. 10 of Patna Railway Station waiting with all your luggage and family to board your train and you feel the urge to urinate, you’ll have to go from Platform 10 to Platform Number 1. Patna Railway Station has 10 platforms but only one has a women’s toilet. And it’s an […]
In last few months, a shocking incident came to light women working in the multi-billion dollar garment industry in Tamil Nadu alleged that they have been given unlabelled drugs at work instead of a day off when they speak about their period pain. According to the interviews of 100 women (mostly poor )done by Thomson Reuters […]
NEW DELHI: While the TV networks are paying more attention to election news, the ‘Me Too’ activists have been venting their anger at the Supreme Court. Over the past week, there has been news about the progress of a case of alleged sexual harassment against the Chief Justice of India. Sexual harassment allegations against India’s […]
Fall in sex ratio has not only demographic impact, but also leads to trafficking of women and bride-buying. The Supreme Court on Friday refused to dilute stringent provisions of the PNDT Act under which a medical practitioner could be sent to jail for up to three years for even anomalies in paperwork and not keeping […]
Being a change in the society, for the first time women in Patna will have an opportunity to attend the special prayer performed at mosque, Taraweeh ki Dua, during the month of Ramzan, the special month of special prayers and recitation of Holy Quran. The Khanquah Munemia and Masjid, the famous Sufi centre at Mitan […]
होली का त्यौहार आते ही बाज़ार रंग ,गुलाल और पिचकारियों से सज चुके है। बाज़ारों में काफी चहल-पहल देखने को मिल रही है। हर वर्ग हर आयु के लोगों के लिए बाज़ारों में होली के मौके पर खरीददारी करने के लिए कुछ न कुछ तो जरूर है। होली रंगों, उमंगों और खुशियों का त्यौहार है […]
अंतर्राष्ट्रीय महिला दिवस के जश्न को मानते हुये दिल्ली के निम्न आय समुदायों से महिला स्वंयसेवकों की उद्यमिता के कार्यक्रम का उद्घाटन करते हुए, सुश्री रश्मि सिंह, सचिव एनडीएमसी ने ऐसी महिलाओं की पहचान करने और उन्हें अपने व्यवसाय को बढ़ाने के लिए उन्हें प्रशिक्षित करने के साथ ही निदान की भूमिका की सराहना की। […]
International Women’s Day was started more than 100 years ago. Its idea was also of a woman, whose name was Clara Zetkin. Clara was a Marxist thinker and activist, but she was also active on the question of women’s rights. In 1910 an international conference of women was held in Copenhagen. For the first time […]
Eight years before in 2012 people across the world came together to express their outrage, to strike and RISE in defiance of the injustices women suffer, demanding an end of violence against women. According to a survey 1 in 3 women across the planet are beaten or raped during her lifetime. That’s ONE BILLION WOMEN […]
