Article List

AIDWA welcomes upholding of women’s rights in commanding position in the Army
18 Feb 2020
AIDWA welcomes the judgment of the Supreme Court that all women officers in short service commission are eligible for permanent commission and command posts in all branches of the Army irrespective of the number of years of service. Women in the Army have been fighting for this for the last ten years when the Delhi High Court granted them permanent commission in the Army. However, the government had refused to act on the Delhi High Court judgment.
Women Commanders in the Army
13 Feb 2020
The All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA) strongly condemns the patriarchal and feudal attitudes still strong as ever in the government, administration and Armed Forces. This was explicitly exposed during the reply by the government to the Supreme Court during the hearing of the plea filed by a few women officers against the biasness in the Indian Armed Forces.
AIDWA demands - Stop police brutality on peaceful protests
11 Feb 2020
The All India Democratic Women's Association (AIDWA) strongly condemns the police brutality on a peaceful march of Jamia students to Parliament against the CAA-NRC-NPR. Eyewitness accounts and coverage exposes their brutality. More than 30 students were injured and taken for treatment. AIDWA is extremely appalled at the way male policemen targeted women protesters. Accounts of women victims show that these male police personnel targeted women's private parts and hit them below the belt so that no one could see the assault.
AIDWA demands immediate action against saffron goondaism in Gargi College
10 Feb 2020
The All India Democratic Women's Association (AIDWA) expresses shock and strongly condemns the harassment of girl students by a group of pro CAA supporters inside Gargi College on 6 February.
AIDWA Condemns Government’s Insensitivity To Women’s Needs Reject Pro-Corporate, Anti-Women, Anti-Poor Budget
01 Feb 2020
The All India Democratic women’s association rejects the Budget 2020-2021 as pro-corporate anti people budget which will increase the burden of women, particularly of women from the working class, minorities and other socially vulnerable sections. It notes that this budget has been presented in a context of an unprecedented systemic crisis in the economy that has been consistently ignored by the government.
AIDWA Condemns Death Threat against Brinda Karat and others
30 Jan 2020
The All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA) strongly condemns the death threat issued in an anonymous letter in Karnataka against its patron Brinda Karat. This letter also targets several other prominent secular, progressive personalities which include actor Prakash Raj, Swami Nijagunananda, former Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswami, etc.

This is a serious matter and the Karnataka government should immediately
investigate the origin of this letter and take appropriate steps to apprehend the culprit/s.
AIDWA Denounces Heinous Attacks on JNU Students and Faculty,Calls for Immediate Countrywide Solidarity Actions
06 Jan 2020
The All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA) strongly denounces the heinous attack on students and teachers, including girls and women, by masked armed thugs in the JNU campus yesterday. That these thugs entered the campus without any hindrance points to the fact that it was a pre-planned attack. The connivance of the police, university security staff and administration with the SanghParivar affiliated ABVP and the armed thugs of the RSS-BJP-Bajrang Dal is extremely shocking.
AIDWA Welcomes Life Imprisonment Of Former BJP MLA Kuldip Sengar
21 Dec 2019
AIDWA welcomes the sentencing of former BJP MLA Kuldip Singh Sengar to imprisonment for the remainder of his life in the Unnao rape case by the Delhi CBI Court. It also welcomes the fact that the Court has directed that adequate steps be taken by the CBI to ensure the life and liberty of the survivor and her family is protected by providing a safe house and change of identity if so desired by the family.
AIDWA condemns brutal police action inside University campuses
16 Dec 2019
The All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA) strongly condemns the barbaric police action unleashed in a number of university campuses where spontaneous peaceful protests of teachers and students have been going on first against unwarranted fee hikes and more recently against the unconstitutional Citizenship Amendment Act enacted by BJP through its brute majority in the Parliament.
AIDWA Statement on Telangana incident
06 Dec 2019
AIDWA strongly condemns the manner in which in some recent cases of rape and murder or attempted murders action or inaction of police and administration has demonstrated total failure of the justice system in such cases. Rape survivors in Unnao, UP, who showed the courage to lodge cases were subjected to murderous attacks (the second one set on fire by accused freed on bail) in which police were unable to protect witnesses.