Discrimination Against Women, Muslims and SCs-STs Rising – Two Articles
Discrimination Against Women, Muslims and SCs-STs Rising: Oxfam; India Enters ‘Amrit Kaal’ with Growing Atrocities Against Dalits.
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When History Tells Us to Get On With the Struggle
Review of Meredith Tax’s ‘The Rising of Women: Feminist Solidarity and Class Conflict, 1880-1917’. In telling this story of the struggle for working women’s rights, the author says that differences among those fighting for social justice should not be an excuse not to seek common ground and get on with the struggle.
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Dowry Was Banned 60 Years Ago. But Cases Are Rising, While Grieving Families Find Justice Harder Than Ever
More than 18 women die every day in India in violence related to demands for dowry, which was outlawed in 1961. The number of complaints against dowry demands and related violence rose 25% in 2021 over the previous year. The conviction rate has plunged, as many who complain eventually compromise.
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Iran’s Govt Scrambles to Contain Unrest as it Spreads to More Towns and Cities; Also: Press Release by IMSD
The large-scale protests against the Iranian government over the custodial death of a 22-year-old Kurdish woman who was arrested by the country’s notorious “morality” police for allegedly violating the strict law on headscarves has reportedly spread to about 80 cities and towns.
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Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay: A Woman of Several Hues
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay was an actor, social reformer, feminist, freedom fighter, reviver of Indian handicrafts, and a global proselytizer of Satyagraha. She was a woman who was years ahead of her time and a romantic renegade.
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B.R. Ambedkar’s Views on Women Question and Current Electoral Politics
Ambedkar’s commitments and struggles towards gender justice and women’s empowerment have not been seriously explored in the mainstream academic circles and public sphere at large. This essay is an attempt to engage with Ambedkar’s views on women’s question.
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What is Socialist Feminism?
There is a fundamental interconnection between women’s struggle and class struggle. All those women’s struggles which build collective confidence among women are important to building class consciousness; and all those class struggles which seek to build the social and cultural autonomy of the working class are necessarily linked to the struggle for women’s liberation.
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Gender-Based Violence in the Pandemic
One consequence of the ever-evolving COVID-19 pandemic is increasing levels of violence against women of all ages. Gender-based violence (GBV) is a global pandemic that affects the lives of one in three women.
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‘A Woman and Fire are as Ancient as Civilisation’: Six Dalit-Feminist Poems
Written during the pandemic, these six poems stage the myriad everyday theatres of the self, the family, the domestic, the personal, the public, the political, the national, and even the civilisational, where caste and gender interlock to determine intimate pasts and futures of inequity and exclusion.
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So Who’s the Bulwark Against Saudi Arabia?
Saudi Arabia is one of the top destinations in the world for human traffickers, slave labour and sex trafficking. It is out of control.
