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Learning The Law Through Cartoons And Creating Awareness
Safecity recently hosted the Laws Through Cartoons workshop with the aim of creating more awareness about the law and legislation in India in an interactive, creative and fun way.
Has India Let Down Women On Jobs Front This Election?
According to a survey conducted by Safecity and SheThePeople.TV, less than half the women interviewed felt any change in female representation in the elections.
Indian Women Voters – Their Voices and their Vote
India doesn’t come at the top of the list really, when it comes to women’s rights. A day doesn’t go by when you don’t hear about some or the other crime committed against women. Sexism runs so deep in our systems that we’ve come to ignore it and move on from now. No matter how […]
Are Women From Minorities Welcome In Indian Politics?
Elections in India, one of the world’s most populous countries, evoke images like a social gathering or a fun fair, in part due to the overwhelming numbers that participate in the process. In this country of over a billion people, 714 million voters will decide who heads the world’s largest democracy for the next five […]
Justice for Anjana – When India fell flat on her face
It’s been 6 years since the world learnt about the most horrified gang-rape in our country. And India has seen millions more after that. For this one though, do we knowingly shut our eyes? While plans to bring in 2019 were in full swing the world over, India fell flat on her face; and the […]
India Rape Capital of the World : Beti Bachao Slogan or a Warning?
Women get raped because they wear jeans. Women get raped because they are out after dark. Women get raped because they talk on the phone. Women get raped because — well, because men are not held accountable for their actions. The society may tell you how wrong you are as a woman and why exactly […]
Did you Think of Semen-filled Balloons When Looking Forward to Holi?
It probably takes an outstanding level of commitment, stubbornness and willpower to convert a festival that celebrates the victory of good over evil, into a scary, nerve-racking experience for people just trying to have a good time. Holi was once one of my favourite festivals, until of course, I became a teenager. Suddenly, my mother […]
Beating Trolls with Feminism, Give Them a Taste of Their own Medicine
Article 19 of the Constitution of India guarantees us the right to the freedom of speech and expression which means that it protects and allows us to say whatever we feel like, criticize the government if we want, disagree with people and speak our minds. This right, however, also comes with an asterisk. When we’re […]
The H1B Visa Holders and Their Trailing Spouses
Goal 5 of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is Gender Equality. While there are different factors that are instrumental in achieving Gender Equality, one of the major roadblocks that women continue to face is equal access to economic opportunities and financial empowerment. While this challenge has been widely acknowledged and a lot of initiatives […]
Women Rights India: Do they Exist? Should they Exist?
“Should half the world’s population have a completely separate category of rights assigned to us – women’s rights? And should these rights, accorded by virtue of us being the less privileged gender, simply be a part and parcel of recognising that we too are human beings? Or do they need to go further than that to […]
