Article List

AIDWA on one stop crisis
29 Nov 2014
As reported in the press prime minister’s office has shot down the one stop crisis centre project of WCD which was to provide medical, legal, police and emergency services to survivors in distress under one roof. The centres were proposed one at each district costing Rs. 200 crores in total.
WHY NATIONAL WOMEN’S ORGANIZATIONS OPPOSE THE PROPOSAL TO LEGALIZE PROSTITUTION
20 Nov 2014
Press Release on horrific case of “honour” killing in Delhi
20 Nov 2014
AIDWA is deeply shocked and outraged at the news of yet another case of “honour” killing that has claimed the life of a young girl, this time in the National Capital. According to the media reports, a 21-year-old girl, who had married out of her own choice outside her community, was strangulated by her parents and relatives after they called her home on the pretext of formalizing the marriage.
On the judgement of the Delhi High Court in the Sharda rape case.
18 Nov 2014
AIDWA is deeply concerned about the recent judgement of the Delhi High Court in the Sharda rape case. In this case the High Court acquitted the accused of rape charges on the basis of certain patriarchal and regressive reasoning.
AIDWA condemns deaths due to criminal negligence of BJP Goverment
11 Nov 2014
AIDWA is absolutely shocked at the deaths of 8 women at the hands of the health department, Chhattisgarh Government and appalled at the level of negligence that has led to nearly 50 more women being hospitalised and still in serious condition.
AIDWA statement on Meerut gang rape case
13 Oct 2014
It is now confirmed that the young woman from a village in Meerut who had earlier alleged that she was abducted, gang-raped and then forced to convert to Islam has now approached the Meerut police to seek protection from her own family.
AIDWA Press Statement on NCW Chairperson’s remarks
01 Oct 2014
AIDWA expresses its strong condemnation of the recently appointed NCW Chairperson’s reported efforts to exonerate the RSS and its leaders (who are prominent leaders of the BJP) of any agency in coining, and propagating the term “love jihad”. The remarks of the Chairperson in this regard have been published in a leading daily today ( Oct 1^st 2014).
AIDWA Press Statement on Vrindavan widows
18 Sep 2014
AIDWA condemns the inhuman and irresponsible statement made by the BJP MP from Mathura, Ms. Hema Malini reportedly stating that widows from Bihar and Bengal should not come and settle in Vrindavan.
AIDWA Press Statement on Yogi Adityanath
28 Aug 2014
Yogi Adityanath, a BJP MP, has made a public statement to the effect that 100 Muslim girls are to be forcibly converted to Hinduism for every Hindu girl who is forced to embrace Islam.
AIDWA Report on atrocity in Kanthi, E. Medinipur Dist, West Bengal
20 Aug 2014
A delegation comprising of AIDWA leaders - AIDWA state secretary Minati Ghosh, President Anju Kar along with Purba Medinipur district secretary, Rekha Goswami, Ramala Chakraborty, Bharati Mutsuddi and others visited the village Sunia in Kanthi, Purba Medinipur where an Anganwadi worker was raped and murdered two days ago.