In memoriam: Lotika Sarkar 1923 – 2013
Saluting Professor Lotika Sarkar who fought to make the country’s laws uphold gender justice and women’s rights By Vibhuti...
Monthly Archives: February 2013
Suryanelli rape case: 17 years on, the accused are still roaming free
Seventeen years after the fact, a patriarchal society still shrouds the life of the young woman, known as the...
Strike! Dance! Rise!, One Billion dares to defy violence
By OBR-Karnataka The brutal gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old woman in Delhi shocked the collective conscience of...
The Cost of Justice
In 2002, Dr Rina Mukherji, then a senior reporter working for The Statesman complained of sexual harassment against Ishan...
In the land of Buddha and Gandhi, death penalty has no place, PUCL
By Team FI People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) has strongly condemned the hanging of Afzal Guru in New...
Women’s groups slam India’s ordinance on sexual violence
The Justice Verma Commission recommendations hailed as groundbreaking by activists in India not reflected in new ordinance By Team...