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The Centre for Law and Policy Research has a draft bill called The Freedom of Marriage and Association and Prohibition of Honour Crimes bill.
Even when cases are reported, conviction is a problem with witnesses turning hostile.
The UK Supreme Court has defined ‘woman’ as someone who is biologically born female. What does this mean for the rights of transgender women?
Trade has been a powerful instrument for gender equality over the last few decades – especially in low income and emerging economies.
The temptation by judges to attach moral homilies when adjudicating on rape cases goes back all the way to the 1974 Mathura judgment of a sessions...
For 23 years, Khabar Lahariya has been reporting the news from Bundelkhand, a hilly region between northern Madhya Pradesh and southern Uttar Pradesh.
On the 50th day of the protest, Padmajam from Trivandrum decided to join the other women in chopping off her hair.
In the surround sound of misuse narratives, women who most desperately need the law’s protections are in the greatest danger of losing them
By challenging beauty norms, Kerala’s chief secretary reopens an old conversation: why should anyone have the right to comment on a woman’s...
A 14-year-old boy was arrested in Bagalkot, Karnataka for raping a 12-year-old girl.
In its simplest form, Adolescence shows us what is evident in plain sight. The kids are not all right
The sports ministry has revoked the suspension of the Wrestling Federation of India. What does this mean for Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh?
Feminist economists have a neat phrase for what is an everyday life for far too many women around the world.
Aspirational India gives cause for hope. The ASER (annual status of education report) released earlier this year lists the reasons why.
Across generations, regions, religions, and socio-economic status, this unstitched garment has endured for 5,000 years
Institutions should be the first rank of redress and it's their duty to initiate inhouse or police proceedings against the perpetrator.
Andhra Pradesh CM Chandrababu Naidu said he is advocating WFH to get more women into the workforce. The statement is welcome but will not be enough.
Why does the government have any interest in preserving an abusive marriage; one where the wife is the property of her husband and her consent is...
Kanye West’s wife, Bianca Censori grabbed headlines all over the world. But the nude female body has in the past been used for protest and...
Girls are surging ahead of boys in some subjects. Government schools are doing better than private schools. And everyone has better reading and...
Interfaith couples who already find it tough to marry because of existing so-called anti-conversion laws will now find even living together impossibly...
One billion women around the world are estimated to be out of the purview of the financial sector.
In Donald Trump’s USA, companies that have promoted DEI are rolling back their programmesIn India, corporates have, fortunately not lost their...
The malaise of violence, including sexual violence against women and girls, cuts across geographic borders, age of victim, educational level, and...
How closely did you follow the gender news of 2024? Take my year-ender gender quiz to find out.
BBC has a list of 100. Financial Times has just 25. But writing from an Indian perspective, viewing India from within, who were the women who made...
Looking at the year gone by there is reason to believe the tide has changed. That the girls will save themselves—and us. That there is hope...
India’s dowry death statistic is a disgrace; 18 women killed every single day.
Wars and genocide raging and women’s rights from Afghanistan to the US under attack.
There is anxiety about the economic impact of dwindling numbers. But that cross cannot be borne by women alone.
Women have had to fight to serve in the Indian army. Now, a three-star general’s scathing letter indicting women commanding officers is causing a...
The Supreme Court noted this week that every consensual relationship that doesn’t end in marriage cannot be criminalised.
Apart from the health effects of breathing toxic, polluted air, women in the informal sector have to suffer income loss, too
The Gujarat high court has ruled that anganwadi workers and helpers perform a vital task and can’t be treated as ‘volunteers’.
In the end, it wasn’t a close contest as predicted, but a big bang decisive win for Trump, a convicted felon accused of sexual assault by over two...
“Are we not citizens of the country who deserve justice?” asks Darshan Kaur. “But society just forgot about us.”
Hours from now Americans will decide between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris as their next president.
In July 2016, Sakshi Malik got on to a 14-hour flight to New York City. From there she connected to another four-hour haul to Rio de Janeiro.
The solution is not to ask women to have more kids; a better idea might be just to accept an inevitable reality and prepare for it.
The government’s affidavit to the Supreme Court that “violating a wife’s consent” is wrong, but to call it rape is “excessive”
Child pornography is illegal even if stored on your private device and watched in your personal space, rules the Supreme Court.
By refusing to be anonymous, Gisele has taken control of the narrative of her life and is reminding the world that the shame of rape does not fall...
The euphoria of India’s spectacular performance at the Paralympics is still to die down, but beyond the medals, I've a simple question: Are we...
Global woman icon? Hardly. Flawed? Definitely. And yet Kamala Harris might just be the voice the world needs right now.
By unanimous vote, the West Bengal assembly on Tuesday cleared a bill that makes the death penalty mandatory in cases involving rape and murder.
I’ve been meaning to talk to Neha Dixit about her wonderful debut book, The Many Lives of Syeda X: The story of an unknown Indian
If the rot is systemic, the answer cannot be piecemeal — a resignation here, a committee there. We have to stop responding to sexual assault as...
The Hema Committee report on the Malayalam film industry, released this week, is shocking in its account of the rampant sexual exploitation of women.
News of yet another horrific rape and murder, A 31-year-old doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata has led to massive protests.
Beyond the details of this crime, there is a horrible sense of déjà vu. Already, they’re calling the 32-year-old postgraduate doctor the “second...