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A government bill to raise the legal age of marriage for women from 18 to 21 will not prevent early or forced weddings, will deem many marriages of those between 18-21 illegal, and criminalise elopement by girls dodging domestic abuse, confinement, forced marriage.
In 2019, Chile exploded in a mass uprising against authoritarian neoliberalism. What role did the Chilean feminist movement play in fomenting this revolt?
According to the World Inequality Report 2022, the levels of wealth and income inequalities in India are among the worst that prevail in the leading countries of the world.
It is not only atrocities on the marginalised groups that tells us the truth about a brutal system but equally its everyday workings as experienced by its most marginal sections.
The Indian Constitution guarantees equality under Article 14. But when we examine the domestic sphere under the matrimonial laws, since men and women within the marriage are not equal, the same yardstick of equality cannot be applied. Equality can only be between equals.
The Pothumallee case led to reservations in Tamil Nadu’s anganwadis. Ten years later, caste hurdles to recruitment have given way to other challenges.
An interview with the Senegalese scholar-activist about feminist activists in Africa and their work, struggles and lives.
After a year of balancing duties and battling hurdles, women farmers are now rejoicing. But they know the job is not done yet.
Based on more than three decades of research and activism, the author states that pornography and the other sexual-exploitation industries are an impediment to stable, decent human communities.
On the life and times of this radical figure.
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