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
Health rights activists hail judgment as a major victory for the world wide campaign for affordable medicines
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In a landmark judgment the Supreme Court of India rejected Novartis AG’s plea to patent its cancer drug, Glivec. The drug was developed in the 1990s and is considered beneficial for treating chronic myeloid leukemia and gastrointestinal tumors. [...] Continue Reading…
Women journalists have issued a statement in support of S Akila, Sun TV news anchor who was sacked for filing a sexual harassment charge against her superior V. Raja
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The Network of Women in Media (NWMI), India, an independent forum of media professionals have condemned the sacking of a Sun TV journalist, S Akila who was fired by [...] Continue Reading…
Opinions expressed by many of the members of parliament during the debate have exposed their misogynistic attitudes towards women
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Women’s rights activists in India, in a press release issued yesterday, have termed the passing of the Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill, 2013 in Parliament as “historic” and a step forward in the journey for justice for women. Activists, however, [...] Continue Reading…
Petition by women and human rights organizations calls for support and justice for Suja Jones, who has taken her French husband to court on charges of raping their then 3-year-old daughter
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An international group of women and human rights organizations have put together a petition to ensure justice for Indian national Suja Jones who has taken her husband [...] Continue Reading…
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A group of feminist activists and lawyers in India have created a facts and myths sheet to educate the public about the certain aspects of the Criminal law (Amendment) Bill, 2013, which have generated a lot of pro and con discussions. The fact sheet circulated yesterday is published below.
The Justice Verma Committee (JVC) report was a landmark [...] Continue Reading…
UN Women welcomes the outcome of 57th session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, held in New York, this week
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The UN Women today welcomed the Agreed Conclusions of the 57th session of the United Nation’s Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), which concluded on Friday. In a press release, the UN Women [...] Continue Reading…
Women’s groups call for changes in the new Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill 2013, passed by the Union Government of India
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Women’s groups and representatives of democratic and human rights groups, have called the Union Government’s Criminal Law (Amendment) (CLA) Bill 2013, as “taking one step forward and two steps back” in relation to “creating a law which is [...] Continue Reading…
In 1992, Bhanwari Devi, then a Sathin, grassroots worker, with the state-run women’s development project in Rajasthan, was raped, by a group of men belonging to an influential community, for campaigning against child marriage. Twenty years hence, the sathin whose case catalysed women’s mobilization in the country against sexual violence and whose legal battle played a crucial role in [...] Continue Reading…
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Health rights activists, cancer survivors and women’s groups in India have called on the Commerce Minister to mark International Women’s Day 2013 with an announcement of compulsory licensing for Trastuzumab, a life-saving drug for women with HER2+ breast cancer.
Trastuzumab, the patent for which is held by Swiss pharma giant Roche, is currently priced at Rs.6-8 lakhs [...] Continue Reading…