Aidwa

Events

Stop Betrayal of half the population – place and pass the Women’s Reservation Bill now
27 Jul 2017
The election time promises made by the BJP are legion in number. So is the list of broken promises, which continues to lengthen even as the Honourable Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi bestows…
Challenging caste, class & gender violence: in defence of dalit women’s human rights
19 Jul 2017
Women’s emancipation is impossible to obtain without achieving equal status for all sections of women. AIDWA has been in the forefront of the struggle to mainstream the multiple dimensions of…
Ashiyana rape victim from Uttar Pradesh
19 Jul 2017
A 13 year old daughter of a rag picker was abducted by six men in a moving car when she was returning home with her brother after doing domestic work on May 2, 2005 in Lucknow. She was beaten with a…
HINDUTVA-SPONSORED VIOLENCE IN TRIBAL ORISSA Report of an AIDWA delegation to Kandhamal December 2008
17 Jul 2017
Orissa has long been a site of Hindutva violence against minority groups. From anti-Christian violence in Rourkela in 1964, to the brutal murder of the Australian missionary Graham Staines and his…
A plan for constructing an Aqua food processing factory in Thundurru village was underway.
17 Jul 2017
Areti Sathyavathi, age 55, belongs to Thundurru village. Her husband is a cancer patient. In spite of her difficulties, she has been agitating along with the villagers for a pollution-free village…