-TheWire.in The imbalance has raised the possibility of sex-selective abortions or the killing of girl children that may be occurring in these villages. New Delhi: In 132 villages in Uttarkashi, a district in the state of Uttarakhand, no girl children were born in the last three months, according to a report in the Times of India. The only children born here were boys, 216 of them. The imbalance has raised the possibility of...
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Has the Dial Moved on the Indian Sex Work Debate? -Prabha Kotiswaran
-Economic and Political Weekly The politics of sex work has exercised civil society, feminists, governments and, of course, Sex workers and the latter’s organisations. This trajectory is examined in the context of the last two decades in India and taking into consideration the relevant laws. Please click here to read the entire article. ...
More »National Network of Sex workers condemn recent raids on Sex workers in Mumbai
-Petition submitted by National Network of Sex workers to NHRC, dated 28th May, 2019 The National Network of Sex workers (NNSW) has recently submitted a petition to the Chairperson of National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Hon. Justice HL Dattu regarding police brutality and raids on Sex workers in Mumbai on 24th-25th May 2019. According to that petition, there has been misuse of anti-trafficking provisions of Section 370, IPC by the police...
More »The hysterectomy is modern, but the poverty is primitive
-THe Telegraph Sugarcane labour contractors run a system that discriminates against women by appearing to be gender-neutral After all, it is not genital mutilation. Or vagina sealing. Those are some of the agonizing traditional rituals for girls in various countries intended to make them attractive to men and sexually faithful to their husbands. Attempts to put an end to these practices began in the 1970s, and the United Nations requested healthcare workers...
More »How Much Is a Woman's Labour Worth? Rs 37 a Day, According to the Indian Govt -Neha Dixit
-TheWire.in Mid-day meal cooks in Bihar – mostly women from Dalit and Adivasi communities – are subject to the worst kind of institutional gender discrimination. Patna/Jehanabad/Bhojpur (Bihar): On February 11, while Prime Minister Narendra Modi served the third billionth Akshay Patra mid-day meal in Vrindavan, Uttar Pradesh, he said that his “government has given special focus on the nutrition of the children because a healthy childhood is the foundation of New India”. “Modiji...
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