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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
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’.
The process of passing the Women’s Reservation Bill in September underlined how little the substantive process mattered to the BJP-led Government. Political parties, civil society, and other stakeholders have to ensure that the new law does not remain an empty promise.
With #MeToo, the impacts have been even more varied and expansive than Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter movements, making it an important case study into how mass mobilization can seed change in many different arenas of society.
Here, in five charts, we try to decode the life of women in Rajasthan and answer whether the statistics are in sync with the situation in other states and at the all India-level.
A woman experiencing gender violence often incurs higher costs, including medical expenses, emotional well-being, and disruptions to education or employment. Also: ‘The Social Shame of Violence Against Women’.
There is a growing body of physiological, anatomical, ethnographic and archaeological evidence to suggest that not only did women hunt in our evolutionary past, but they may well have been better suited for such an endurance-dependent activity.
‘Family Law Reforms After Marriage (In)Equality’: The marriage equality verdict is a decisive break from the Supreme Court’s rights-enhancing jurisprudence in the realm of gender; Also: ‘Marriage Equality Judgment: The Missing Case of International Covenants’.
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