India Unites For The Unite Campaign: 16 Days Of Activism To Revitalize Commitments And Call For Accountability And Action From Decision-Makers
3 months, 3 weeks ago

India Unites For The Unite Campaign: 16 Days Of Activism To Revitalize Commitments And Call For Accountability And Action From Decision-Makers

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New Delhi, November 26: On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, Grisu Media Arts and YOUx Talks have united to combat the pervasive issue of gender-based violence. Shubira Prasad: Advocating for Awareness and Action in the UNiTE Campaign Shubira Prasad calls for global engagement in the 16-day UNiTE Campaign, managed by UN Women to end violence against women and girls. Tanushi: Advocating for Empowerment in the UNiTE Campaign Tanushi, an award-winning poet and author, strongly supports the UNiTE Campaign, managed by UN Women, to end violence against women and girls. Mohsinaa Ahmad: Empowering Voices to End Gender-Based Violence Mohsinaa Ahmad, a podcaster, empowerment coach, and name expert, affirms her unwavering support for the 16 Days of Activism UNiTE Campaign, managed by UN Women. Usha Mani: A Call for Urgent Action to End Gender-Based Violence As part of the 16 Days UNiTE Campaign, managed by UN Women, Usha Mani, founder of ParenTeen Bond, emphasizes the urgent need for collective action to end violence against women.

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Importance of education in women empowerment highlighted
2 weeks, 3 days ago

Importance of education in women empowerment highlighted

The Hindu  

Thanjavur District Social Welfare Officer R.T. Latha highlighted the importance of education in women empowerment. Participating in the Women’s Day celebrations at the Ponnaiyah Ramajayam Institute of Science and Technology, a Deemed to be a University, at Vallam near Thanjavur on Saturday, Ms. Latha encouraged the students to pursue their dreams, overcome societal challenges, and contribute to nation-building, apart from …

Transforming ‘men’-talities, redefining masculinity
2 months, 1 week ago

Transforming ‘men’-talities, redefining masculinity

The Hindu  

As another International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women passes by, we face a stark truth: despite decades of advocacy, nearly one in three women worldwide has endured violence at the hands of men. An India report UNESCO’s Transforming MENtalities initiative has aimed to shift the way men engage with gender issues — not just as allies but …

Andhra Pradesh: Two-Day Talk on Breaking the Silence Held
3 months ago

Andhra Pradesh: Two-Day Talk on Breaking the Silence Held

Deccan Chronicle  

Vijayawada: The two-day international conference on “Breaking the Silence: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Gender Exploitation and Resistance” offered multifaceted insights into the issues of gender exploitation and resistance. It featured talks by eminent academicians such as Prof. Anita Singh, department of English, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi; Prof. Rajinder Dudrah, Professor of Cultural Studies and Creative Industries, Birmingham City University; Prof. Geetanjali …

International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women 2024: Date, history, significance
4 months ago

International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women 2024: Date, history, significance

India Today  

The International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, observed annually on November 25, is a global effort to raise awareness about the pervasive issue of violence against women and girls. In 1979, the UN General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, yet violence against women and girls continues to be …

Mediation matters: A need for more women
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Mediation matters: A need for more women

Hindustan Times  

Now that the elections are behind us, it’s time for political parties that relied heavily on the women’s vote to find ways to involve women in decision-making, not just as recipients of welfare schemes. India should create a cadre of mediators with strong women’s representation to address the complexities of today’s conflicts and promote collaborative and proactive conflict resolution. Meenakshi …

A feminist approach to gender-based violence policymaking in India
1 year ago

A feminist approach to gender-based violence policymaking in India

Hindustan Times  

While the Indian constitution guarantees the protection of life and liberty and prohibits discrimination based on gender, policymaking in this field is stymied by several problems. India’s social structure, with long-standing gender inequalities rooted in patriarchal norms and gender roles, plays a significant role in perpetuating GBV. While the common forms of GBV against women in India are acts of …

A feminist approach to gender-based violence policymaking in India
1 year ago

A feminist approach to gender-based violence policymaking in India

Hindustan Times  

India’s social structure, with enduring gender inequalities rooted in patriarchal norms, plays a significant role in perpetuating gender-based violence. In the context of this brief, GBV refers to acts of abuse of a sexual, physical, psychological, or financial nature committed against women in India. India’s social structure, with long-standing gender inequalities rooted in patriarchal norms and gender roles, plays a …

Empowering Marginalized Communities: Enhancing Legal Awareness To Combat Domestic Violence In India
1 year, 2 months ago

Empowering Marginalized Communities: Enhancing Legal Awareness To Combat Domestic Violence In India

Live Law  

Domestic violence is defined as a pattern of behavior that is used to gain or maintain power and control over an intimate partner1. Recognising the indispensability of increased awareness amongst victim groups, the Organic Act 1/2004 on Comprehensive Protection Measures to Combat Gender Violence in Spain enshrines preventative awareness among citizens as the law's first guiding principle9. An additional component …

Violence against women, girls perpetrated by terrorists remains rampant: India at UNSC
2 years ago

Violence against women, girls perpetrated by terrorists remains rampant: India at UNSC

The Hindu  

India has told the United Nations Security Council that violence perpetrated by terrorists against women and girls remains rampant and should be strongly condemned while calling for the adoption of a zero-tolerance approach to all forms of terrorism. India’s Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Ruchira Kamboj said on March 7 that Member States must provide a conducive environment for …

Violence against women, girls perpetrated by terrorists remains rampant: India at UNSC
2 years ago

Violence against women, girls perpetrated by terrorists remains rampant: India at UNSC

Firstpost  

India has told the UN Security Council that violence perpetrated by terrorists against women and girls remains rampant and should be strongly condemned while calling for the adoption of a zero-tolerance approach to all forms of terrorism United Nations: India has told the UN Security Council that violence perpetrated by terrorists against women and girls remains rampant and should be …

Making India safer for women
2 years, 2 months ago

Making India safer for women

Hindustan Times  

A woman stabbed 51 times by her stalker with a screwdriver in Chhattisgarh’s Korba district. National Crime Records Bureau data shows that in 2021, a crime against a woman was recorded nearly every minute, with abduction, rape and domestic violence forming the bulk of the cases. It has left the police baffled and society shocked, underlining a fundamental disconnect between …

International Day For The Elimination Of Violence Against Women 2022: Theme, History and Significance
2 years, 4 months ago

International Day For The Elimination Of Violence Against Women 2022: Theme, History and Significance

News 18  

The International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women is observed on November 25, every year. This year’s campaign is a 16-day initiative starting on International Day for the Elimination of Violence against women and concluding on International Human Rights Day on December 10. The campaign “will aim to mobilize all society to become activists for the prevention of …

Untitled Story
3 years, 4 months ago

Untitled Story

Live Mint  

October is the month in which trees in northern countries turn gloriously vivid shades of red, pink and orange. As feminist peace activists have pointed out, recent events in Afghanistan show how little progress we have made in including women, taking women’s rights seriously, or even protecting women human rights defenders. The Secretary-General’s report points to the falling funding for …

Never Have I Ever’s Poorna Jagannathan: ‘I love the ferocity of the MeToo movement in India’
3 years, 7 months ago

Never Have I Ever’s Poorna Jagannathan: ‘I love the ferocity of the MeToo movement in India’

The Independent  

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “It’s so hard to imagine yourself as the centre of the story,” the star of …

International Day for Elimination of Violence against Women: Date, Theme and Significance
4 years, 4 months ago

International Day for Elimination of Violence against Women: Date, Theme and Significance

News 18  

The International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women is a global advocacy effort aimed at preventing and eliminating the instances of violence in all forms that women are subjected to around the world. Significance of the Event According to the UN, violence against women and girls is one of the most widespread, persistent and devastating human rights violations …

Women From Disadvantaged Social Groups at Greater Risk Of Gender-based Violence: UN In India
4 years, 5 months ago

Women From Disadvantaged Social Groups at Greater Risk Of Gender-based Violence: UN In India

News 18  

New Delhi: Calling for attention to cases of sexual violence against women and girls in India, the UN in India said the alleged rape and murder in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras and Balarampur are a reminder that those from disadvantaged social groups are at greater risk of gender-based violence. In a statement, the UN in India said it is essential that …

Men's rights activism on the rise in India in response to #MeToo movement
5 years, 10 months ago

Men's rights activism on the rise in India in response to #MeToo movement

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Please try again later {{ …

Nepal holds national-level meeting on gender-based violence
6 years, 6 months ago

Nepal holds national-level meeting on gender-based violence

The Quint  

Kathmandu, Sep 18 A three-day meeting at the national level on "Multi-Sectoral Services to Respond to Gender-Based Violence in Nepal" kicked off here on Tuesday. The meeting was organized by the Ministry of Women, Children and Senior Citizens with support from the UN and the Women's Rehabilitation Centre to review progress, strengthen cooperation and share lessons learnt on the implementation …

Rahul Gandhi in Hamburg: Lynching, women's safety, hugging Modi and other takeaways from Congress president's speech
6 years, 7 months ago

Rahul Gandhi in Hamburg: Lynching, women's safety, hugging Modi and other takeaways from Congress president's speech

Firstpost  

Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday attacked the Narendra Modi government on lynching in India, saying that it was due to anger emanating from joblessness and “destruction” of small businesses due to demonetisation and the “poorly implemented” GST. Rahul said non-violence in India was a foundational philosophy of our nationhood and the entire history while adding that “hate could not …

Women of the world, unite!
8 years ago

Women of the world, unite!

Al Jazeera  

Now is the time to continue marching forward with our heads and placards held high for all to see. Governments must urgently bring harmful culture and tradition closer to international human rights, and dismantle the legal discriminations and barriers that keep and push women back. Governments must urgently bring harmful culture and tradition closer to international human rights, and dismantle …

Women of the world, unite!
8 years ago

Women of the world, unite!

Al Jazeera  

Now is the time to continue marching forward with our heads and placards held high for all to see. Governments must urgently bring harmful culture and tradition closer to international human rights, and dismantle the legal discriminations and barriers that keep and push women back. Governments must urgently bring harmful culture and tradition closer to international human rights, and dismantle …

India calls for global efforts to empower women at UN General Assembly
9 years, 5 months ago

India calls for global efforts to empower women at UN General Assembly

Firstpost  

“Women bear a disproportionate burden of poverty, globally,” First Secretary in the Indian Mission to the UN Mayank Joshi said at a UN General Assembly. “Women bear a disproportionate burden of poverty, globally,” First Secretary in the Indian Mission to the UN Mayank Joshi said at a UN General Assembly Third Committee session on ‘Advancement of Women’. “In the challenging …

Make gender equality an international mass movement: Maneka Gandhi
10 years, 4 months ago

Make gender equality an international mass movement: Maneka Gandhi

India TV News  

New Delhi: Union Minister Maneka Gandhi has called for making gender equality an international mass movement, saying it should go beyond being a mere slogan. The Women and Child Development Minister said this while addressing the Asian and Pacific Conference on Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment: Beijingრ Review, organised by United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the …

World needs a movement to fight for gender equality, says Maneka Gandhi
10 years, 4 months ago

World needs a movement to fight for gender equality, says Maneka Gandhi

Firstpost  

Union Minister Maneka Gandhi has called for making gender equality an international mass movement, saying it should go beyond being a mere slogan. New Delhi: Union Minister Maneka Gandhi has called for making gender equality an international mass movement, saying it should go beyond being a mere slogan. The Women and Child Development Minister said this while addressing the Asian …

Fight for gender equality as India votes
10 years, 10 months ago

Fight for gender equality as India votes

Al Jazeera  

India’s political parties have been heading high-voltage campaigns in the ongoing parliamentary elections to lure voters. Seventy civil society activists from across the country have endorsed it as a “minimum common ground” that all political parties need to agree upon to build and implement laws that will help women advance in these key areas. A veteran figure in India’s women’s …

Need to end all acts of violence against women: Sonia
11 years, 6 months ago

Need to end all acts of violence against women: Sonia

The Hindu  

Against the backdrop of rising crimes against women, Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Saturday said making laws for their empowerment is not enough as they will have to be implemented properly on ground. “We should end all acts of violence against women and initiate all steps so that women feel safe and become fearless, empowered and they are given the …

Listen to your better half
11 years, 9 months ago

Listen to your better half

Hindustan Times  

Hardly a day goes by without a news story on some violation of women’s rights. Among the eight Millennium Development Goals, they included gender equality and women’s empowerment. The goal of gender equality and women’s empowerment tracked progress of school enrolment, women’s share of paid work, and women’s participation in parliaments. By failing to address the structural causes of discrimination …

South Asian women call for “gender-just’’ laws in India
12 years, 2 months ago

South Asian women call for “gender-just’’ laws in India

The Hindu  

Britain’s south Asian women rights groups have urged the Indian Government to work with women’s organisations to draft and implement “gender-just laws’’. “The SP of Dantewada Ankit Garg, responsible for the sexual torture of Soni Sori, must be stripped of the Presidential Police Medal for Gallantry awarded on Republic Day 2012,’’ they said in a statement after a meeting organised …

The protests sparked by gang-rape in India aren't the beginning and they won't be the end
12 years, 2 months ago

The protests sparked by gang-rape in India aren't the beginning and they won't be the end

The Independent  

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. This latest wave of protests swells …

Are women not part of our being?
12 years, 6 months ago

Are women not part of our being?

The Hindu  

In a survey conducted by Thomson Reuters’ TrustLaw Women, a hub of legal information and legal support for women’s rights, India ranks with Afghanistan, Congo and Somalia as one of the most dangerous place for women. While women in India generally face numerous disadvantages — poor health indicators, lower literacy rates, lower income levels, poor female to male ratio due …

Slutwalk Plan Triggers Debate On Women In India
13 years, 9 months ago

Slutwalk Plan Triggers Debate On Women In India

India TV News  

New Delhi, Jun 22: Plans by a group of women to hold a “SlutWalk” in New Delhi to protest sexual violence have triggered a debate on whether such marches are appropriate in India and can change mindsets about women's status in the conservative society. Sabarwal, a Delhi University student, said the objective of the walk is to get people thinking …

Women's initiative for peace
22 years, 8 months ago

Women's initiative for peace

The Hindu  

Notwithstanding their personal loss and trauma, several riot-affected women from Gujarat converged at a women's meet in Rajasthan to express their overwhelming desire for peace and communal harmony. A meeting on the theme "Women for Peace" that was held in Rajasthan from June 23 to 25 was one such event that raised hopes. Kavita Srivastava, who had just returned from …

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