KEY TRENDS • Oxfam India's 2023 India Supplement report on poverty and inequality in India reveals that the gap between the rich and the poor is widening. Following the pandemic in 2019, the bottom 50 per cent of the population have continued to see their wealth chipped away. By 2020, their income share was estimated to have fallen to only 13 per cent of the national income and have less than 3...
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Still a nightmare for domestic violence survivors -Philippa Williams, Swarna Rajagopalan, Girija Godbole and Ruchira Goswami
-The Hindu While sharing experiences of violence was a powerful step for women, accessing services and support often resulted in uncertainty, fear and disappointment Just ahead of the International Day for Elimination of All Forms of Violence against women (November 25), the brutal murder and mutilation of a young woman by her partner has drawn attention to intimate partner violence, also recognised under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act 2005...
More »Women and the menace of intimate partner violence -Pavitra Kanagaraj
-Hindustan Times The gruesome case involving 26-year old Shraddha Walkar, allegedly killed by her partner Aaftab Amin Poonawala has brought to fore the menace of intimate partner violence in the country. The gruesome case involving 26-year old Shraddha Walkar, allegedly killed by her partner Aaftab Amin Poonawala has brought to fore the menace of intimate partner violence in the country. An HT analysis of various statistics shows that the problem is widespread,...
More »India’s Workplace Harassment Law Has Failed Informal, Marginalised Workers -Surbhi Karwa
-Behanbox.com New Delhi: India’s law on sexual harassment at work has failed to account for the experiences of informal sector working women, most of who are from marginalised communities – Dalits, Adivasis and Bahujans. This denial of workplace justice to women who are doubly marginalised can be traced to two factors: the failure of the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) or the POSH Act to take into...
More »'Every Woman' releases Zero Draft of global treaty on preventing Violence against women & girls
-Press release by Every Woman Treaty dated September 30, 2022 Every Woman, a coalition of more than 1,700 women's rights advocates in 128 countries, including India, has developed the findings-based draft instrument (Zero Draft EWT), informed by extensive consultation with experts from all regions of the world, including survivors, frontline activists, medical specialists, practitioners, scholars, human rights attorneys, and policy-makers. This Draft of global binding norm focuses on violence prevention and...
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