Report of Rashida Manjoo, Special Rapporteur for the United Nations urges India to end the culture of impunity and the inequality and discrimination so as to eliminate violence against women in India By Team FI Rashida Manjoo, Special Rapporteur for the United Nation for violence against women, its causes and consequences, in the conclusive statement
Activist abused and threatened with rape on Rediff.com live chat that was organised to discuss anti-rape protest By Team FI Social activist Kavita Krishnan has demanded a public apology from the website Rediff.com in regard to the degrading and violent messages addressed to her during a chat organised by the news portal. Krishnan, Secretary, All
To pay tribute to the man who left a legacy of justice is to promise to keep the fight ongoing By Farah Naqvi On April 22, 2013, India lost a man who stood taller than others. In a lifetime of work he unwaveringly upheld the values of our Constitution and deployed them to uphold rights
With the sad demise of Justice Verma, the Indian women’s movement has lost one of its most noble defenders By Team FI Justice J S Verma, the much respected jurist who died of multiple organ failure on Monday at the age of 80, was cremated yesterday with state honour in New Delhi. He was the
Report of Rashida Manjoo, Special Rapporteur for the United Nations urges India to end the culture of impunity and the inequality and discrimination so as to eliminate violence against women in India
By Team FI
Rashida Manjoo, Special Rapporteur for the United Nation for violence against women, its causes and consequences, in the conclusive statement of her fact-finding mission in India, [...] Continue Reading…
Activist abused and threatened with rape on Rediff.com live chat that was organised to discuss anti-rape protest
By Team FI
Social activist Kavita Krishnan has demanded a public apology from the website Rediff.com in regard to the degrading and violent messages addressed to her during a chat organised by the news portal. Krishnan, Secretary, All India Progressive Women’s Association, was [...] Continue Reading…
To pay tribute to the man who left a legacy of justice is to promise to keep the fight ongoing
By Farah Naqvi
On April 22, 2013, India lost a man who stood taller than others. In a lifetime of work he unwaveringly upheld the values of our Constitution and deployed them to uphold rights of those most weakened, most marginalized [...] Continue Reading…
With the sad demise of Justice Verma, the Indian women’s movement has lost one of its most noble defenders
By Team FI
Justice J S Verma, the much respected jurist who died of multiple organ failure on Monday at the age of 80, was cremated yesterday with state honour in New Delhi. He was the former Chief Justice of India and [...] Continue Reading…
Report on child rape says sexual offences against children in India have reached an epidemic proportion with 336% increase in past decade
By Team FI
India saw an alarming increase of 336% in child rape cases from 2001 to 2011 – from 2,113 recorded cases in 2001, to a startling figure of 7,112 cases in 2011, says Asian Center for Human [...] Continue Reading…
Women’s and progressive groups will take out a morcha today in New Delhi to protest against the increasing violence against women and the inaction of the police personnel in the reported cases of violence
By Team FI
In a collective action, women’s and progressive groups in Delhi have organised a protest march against the increasing violence against women and the apathy [...] Continue Reading…
By Team FI
Protests and anger are mounting in Delhi over the brutal rape of 5- year- old girl in Delhi last week.
Anti-rape protesters stormed the barricades outside the residences of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi. The police had to forcefully remove protesters from outside the police headquarters.
The anger was also directed against Delhi police’s [...] Continue Reading…
Mumbai group to release report of its study that challenges assumed notions of gender, sexuality and sex in five cities – Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Bangalore and Thrissur
By Team FI
LABIA, a queer feminist lesbian bi-sexual transgender collective in Mumbai is all set to release its much waited research project – Breaking the Binary – Understanding concerns and realities of queer [...] Continue Reading…
Sexual harassment and public defamation of women law students by news channels in Hyderabad comes under strong protest from women journalists across India
By Team FI
Network of Women in Media, India, (NWMI) has strongly condemned the misogynist portrayal, by certain television channels, of the female law students who attended a party in Hyderabad on 12th April. In a press [...] Continue Reading…