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The recent passage of The Nagaland Municipal Bill, 2023 in Nagaland, which provides 33% reservation for women in Urban Local Governments, signifies a substantial shift in gender perspectives in the state.
This paper attempts to examine the following questions. Does Islam provide for gender equality? To what extent this equality of sexes is found in practice in Islamic societies? Are there any deviations from the scriptural precepts of gender equality? What reformative measures have been undertaken in Muslim countries to improve the status of women by enacting laws?
Researchers estimated there may have been more than 64,500 pregnancies resulting from rape in the 14 states that have enacted near-total abortion bans since ‘Roe v. Wade’ was overturned in 2022, according to a research letter published in the journal ‘JAMA Internal Medicine’.
Across the world, the voices of women are frequently dismissed, disbelieved, or outright ignored. This tragic reality stems from a deeply ingrained societal bias that views women as manipulative, deceitful, and cunning, effectively demonising them and invalidating their experiences.
Women in Bengaluru are unraveling patriarchy, stitch by stitch, song by song.
From Prajwal Revanna, Brij Bhushan, Manipur, Kathua and Hathras, the Bhartiya Janata Party has a history of supporting alleged sexual offenders.
Uttar Pradesh ranked as the top state for crimes against women in 2022. In 2023, multiple incidents involved the kidnapping and rape of women, with video clips of the crimes posted online. The State BJP unit faced criticism for shielding party leaders accused of sexual crimes against women and children.
By endless violence and hateful propaganda, the Indian nation as a shared zone of sensibilities is coming under severe strain.
The saga of the wrestlers’ struggle against sexual harassment – spread over the year 2023 – underlines the fact that the struggle to ensure justice for women and punishment for those accused of crimes against women is integrally linked to the struggle for democracy.
A critique of the Uttar Pradesh government’s Safe City project for restricting the rights and mobility of women and perpetuating a form of ‘Hindutva Urbanism’.
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Ever since its founding in 1946, Janata has voiced its principled dissent against all conduct and practice that is detrimental to the cherished values of nationalism, democracy, secularism and socialism, while upholding the integrity and the ethical norms of healthy journalism. For more than seventy years now, week after week, it has continued to analyse the changes taking place in the country and the world from a socialist standpoint, and thus promote the spread of socialist ideology in the country.
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