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Something is Rotten in the State of West Bengal!
17 Sep 2024
‘Something is rotten in the state of Denmark,’ is a famous line from Shakespeare’s play Hamlet. The same sentence perfectly fits West Bengal today under Mamata Banerjee’s TMC rule.
Mariam Dhawale
ALL ROUND ATTACK ON WOMEN! DEFEAT BJP!
23 Feb 2024
The 18th General Election in 2024 is a challenge before all secular democratic forces in the country, and at the same time an opportunity to dislodge the nightmarish regime of violence, fear, hunger and unemployment unleashed by the BJP-RSS government in the last ten years. It is time to recall the list of broken promises and to review the adverse impact of its policies and the larger economic, political, social damage done by this regime on women.
Ms. Sudha Sundarraman
The election battle, and the challenges ahead
10 Dec 2018
The election battle, and the challenges ahead
Brinda Karat
Driven by notions of purity and impurity
01 Nov 2018
While heated debates and discussions were expected after the Supreme Court’s Sabarimala judgment, what is unusual is the kind of public intervention made by Union Minister Smriti Irani in her widely reported speech in Mumbai. Quite apart from the crudity of the statement, which is objectionable enough, Ms. Irani advised women to accept that menstrual blood is impure and that a menstruating woman desecrates a place of worship.
Death penalty for child rapists- justice lies beyond gimmickry
26 Apr 2018
In a country where the alarming spike in rape incidents are giving a lie to the “acche din” claim of the BJP Government, the Asifa rape case has touched a new low. Not just because of the horrendous nature of the planned gang rape and murder of an 8 year old child within the precincts of a temple, but also because the Hindutva clan got the local community mobilized in favour of the accused. Malice was spewed out against the victim who belonged to the extremely backward nomadic Bakhrewal community, known as migrant shepherds of sheep and cattle.
Mariam Dhawale
Women Protest Outside Supreme Court Against Dilution Of Section 498A
08 Aug 2017
Women’s anger erupted on July 31 at the gates of the Supreme Court of India against its recent judgement that would lead to the dilution of Section 498A. Several representatives of women's organisations assembled outside the Supreme Court to protest against the recent order of the Supreme Court on Section 498A and demanded its review. The demonstration was held within just three days of the Supreme Court order.
Demand to stop discrimination against women Kabaddi Teams in World Cup.
06 Jul 2015
To,

Shri Prakash Singh Badal,

Hon’ble Chief Minister,
Deep Concern Regarding Further Decline In Child Sex Ratios
01 Apr 2011
The All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA) expresses its deep concern at the Census 2011 revelation that the child sex ratio has dropped from 927 to 914 girls per thousand boys, confirming the worst apprehensions of those working to uphold women’s rights. The statistics once again raise serious questions about the direction of development which leads to “growth” without social justice.
MEMORANDUM TO HONORABLE UNION MINISTER OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE, GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
19 May 2006
To,
Dr. A. Ramadoss,
Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare,
Nirman Bhavan,
New Delhi
Achieving Gender Equality-An Unfinished Agenda
29 Jan 2006
THE last session of Parliament was witness, yet again, to the reluctance of the mainstream political parties, barring the Left, to place and pass the Women's Reservation Bill. The BJP's contribution to the scuttling of the Bill was a shameful turnaround of its earlier endorsement, thereby emboldening other parties' withdrawal as well.