Nonadanga: Kolkata Says No to Its Poor
Slum-dwellers who were forcibly evicted from their hutment colony in Nonadanga continue to face brutal attacks, lathicharge and arrests...
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Viewing Woman’s Body in Popular Culture
Popular culture today is the bulwark of patriarchal ideology that constructs a woman’s body as the subject of the...
Vatican Slams American Nuns for Feminist Thinking
An umbrella group of Catholic nuns in America was targeted by a Vatican investigation that accused them of being...
Right-wing Men Bash Woman Writer on Twitter
Poet, writer and activist Meena Kandasamy was the target of brutal, violent and sexist hate campaign on Twitter objecting...
Who Needs Feminism?
An online campaign by undergraduate female students at Duke University asking their fellow students on campus – why they...
Women’s Rights: Divided they Stand
India stood amongst the conservative governments in opposition to the progressive governments in the debates on women and girls’...
Russia’s Closet: The Politics Behind a Ban on Gay “Propaganda”
A draconian new law in St. Petersburg, Russia, bans any public talk of gay issues even on the Internet....
Face it Facebook: It’s Time to have Women on Board
Ultraviolet, a women’s rights group in the US, has launched a petition to convince Facebook to put women on...
Muslim Women’s Movement: Dismantling Patriarchy
The Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan led by Muslim women, works towards the empowerment of Muslim women and diminishing the...