-The Hindu JPC members want Bangladesh to be excluded. As the deadline for a joint committee of Parliament on the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016, nears an end, some members asked whether it was possible to present the Bill in a truncated form by excluding Bangladesh. The Bill proposes citizenship to persecuted Hindus, Jains, Sikhs, Parsis, Christians and Buddhists from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh who came to India before 2014. Violation of Equality The...
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TheyToo: What about men and the third gender? -Sriparna Ray
-The Telegraph The harassment at workplace act needs an upgrade to include men and transgenders in the MeToo conversation I have been sexually harassed and bullied by my boss. I was threatened I would lose my job if I didn’t comply — sounds like an excerpt from one of the hundreds of accounts of women that have been doing the rounds on social media? Well, it is a story of sexual harassment...
More »Women's march for peace, Equality and communal harmony culminates at Delhi's Parliament Street
-Press release by Baatein Aman Ki dated 13th October, 2018 Baatein Aman Ki is a pan India campaign led by women to spread the message of peace, harmony, tolerance and love, and to safeguard Constitutional values. Five yatras with 125 women have travelled across 22 states of India from September 22nd, holding public meetings with diverse sections of society. Over 600 programmes have been organised in 200 cities, towns and villages....
More »WeToo: Women in farming seek gender parity -Basant Kumar Mohanty
-The Telegraph March sought Equality for farm workers New Delhi: A band of bold women is outing alleged predators in newsrooms in the country while another group of women is hitting the streets to bar their gender from the Sabarimala temple in Kerala. In the middle of the twin turmoil and away from the limelight, as many as 25,000 people from the election-bound heartland had last week set out on a long march...
More »These superwomen from Himachal Pradesh show why empowered women make for an empowered country -Raksha Kumar
-The Hindu Bhuira's women are coping with the higher workload by creating vastly more flexible family and community structures. And they are simultaneously pushing towards modernity much faster than their neighbours. Everyone in the village sneaks a glance when Upasana Kumari drives her White Maruti 800 to work. “Driving a car is intoxicating,” says Kumari. A winding, muddy, single lane road that starts from the edge of the hillock where Kumari’s house...
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