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Solidarity with Survivors of Sexual Harassment at Workplace
13 Oct 2018
AIDWA expresses its deep outrage over the sexual abuse and trauma that a number of women in the field of media have suffered. Some of them have broken their silence recently and come out with shocking complaints of sexual harassment and assault against leading media personalities. It salutes the brave women who have come forth to challenge the prevailing patriarchal norms which indict the victim rather than the perpetrator in such cases.
What Four Years of Modi Rule Mean for Women -The Worst of Times: 2014-2018
12 Jul 2018
In Hindu mythology, there is a monster called Bhasmasura. Whatever he touches is immediately reduced to cinder. But who could have thought that we would find such a Bhasmasura in the prime ministerial position today in India? During the four years while this prime minister has been in office, not only has he broken all the promises that he had made through his massive pre-electoral media campaign, but he has destroyed whatever he has touched.
Mariam Dhawale
AIDWA Holds Multifarious Programmes on International Women’s Day
13 Mar 2018
International Women’s Day (IWD) was observed for a whole week as ‘International Women’s Week’ in Delhi. A state level rally was organised jointly with 31 organisations on March 8 but AIDWA also held its own programmes in the units/districts.
Brinda Karat
Gauri Lankesh Could Not Be Jailed. But She Could Be Killed
06 Sep 2017
The cowardly, brutal killing of Gauri Lankesh has led to waves of spontaneous protests in different corners of India. Gauri was a voice of honesty and courage, she challenged the status quo in multiple ways as a single woman, as the editor of a weekly, as an anti-establishment voice, as the proud promoter and practitioner of Kannadiga language and cultures, as a vociferous opponent of Hindutva ideologies.
Ms. Subhashini Ali
From outrage to empowerment
26 Dec 2012
One thought, one hoped, it would not happen in this case but most unfortunately, it did. In all the outrage, the outpouring of horror, grief and anger, that devastating but familiar comment was made. A policeman standing near one of the many groups of those protesting against the brutal assault on a young woman in a bus in Delhi was heard saying: “She must have been doing something with her boyfriend that got those young men excited.”
Ms. Sudha Sundarraman
Work Participation Rates and women’s status- new inequities, new equations
20 Oct 2009
Resurgent India is facing many anomalies. For instance, the economic growth curve, somewhat affected by the global meltdown, is now expected to get back on track and move upwards again, beyond the 9% high of 2008. This has not, however, improved our HDI ranking. This year’s UN HDR Report places us at 134 out of 182 countries.

Ms. Sudha Sundarraman

AIDWA Welcomes Introduction of Pro-Women Legislation by UPA Govt

04 Sep 2005

THE current session of parliament has witnessed the introduction of many bills of specific relevance to women. While welcoming the fact that the UPA government has paid at least partial heed to the pro-poor promises made in the National Common Minimum Programme (CMP), it should be noted that this was done with active prompting from the Left and the sustained intervention of democratic organisations like the AIDWA. But there is still a long way to go.

AIDWA Observes National Demands Day on implementation
29 Aug 2004