Rights group condemns bans on cow slaughter
Statement issued by People’s Union for Democratic Rights On March 16th 2015, the Haryana Government unanimously passed Haryana Gauvansh...
Author: Team FI
Obituary: Tahira Mazhar Ali (1925-2015)
Pakistan’s legendary women’s rights campaigner Tahira Mazhar Ali passed away in Lahore on Monday. She was one of the...
Stop partnership with Uber, activists appeal to UNwomen
Activists aghast at UNwomen’s joint campaign with a company that has a record of its driver’s violence against its...
Delhi CM Kejriwal’s message makes a mockery of the spirit of International Women’s Day
By Kavita Krishnan On International Women’s Day, the Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s has chosen not to give a...
Meera Kosambi (April 24, 1939 – February 26, 2015)
Uma Chakravarti reminisces about the historian and feminist scholar Dr Meera Kosambi who carved her own distinctive space within...
Noted activists discuss their concerns over India’s Daughter in a letter to NDTV
The BBC Documentary India’s Daughter which has been banned by the Indian Government was the subject of a letter...
India’s Daughter is not an act of global solidarity
Film does not probe sexual violence as a systemic issue, opines eminent lawyer Vrinda Grover in her Facebook post...
India’s Daughter, a point of view
Leslee Udwin’s documentary India’s Daughter relies on emotional narrative but fails to form a coherent understanding of rape culture...
Union Budget 2015-16, through gender lens
By Vibhuti Patel The Union Budget (2015-16) has subsidized the corporate sector by providing the tax reductions and sops....