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.
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.
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 […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJdEjmhqFNI After the horrific gang rape in Delhi in 2012, the name ‘Nirbhaya‘ was officially born out of a lot of angst. Our silent screams were deafening, our dark clouded eyes cried and most of us relived the pain of Nirbhaya that somewhere lurked in our pasts. For the first time, we spoke. We did […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
Patriarchy is as old as the hills. No matter what theory you use to explain it – be it a leaf out of Gerda Lerner’s book or a socio-economic understanding based on communism – it all ultimately dovetails to the truth of male dominance over all gender and sex identities that are not male. This […]
In a prelude to the Global Entrepreneurship Summit, Safecity held a panel discussion on balancing business with a social cause, and spoke to five women entrepreneurs from all over the world. Mariama Kabia runs Memunatu Magazine. Memunatu promotes literacy, leadership, and empowerment for teenage girls (10–17 years old) in West Africa, Sierra Leone. Vania Santoso from […]
In the prelude to GES, Safecity held a panel discussion on balancing business with a social cause, and spoke to five women entrepreneurs from all over the world. The discussion saw an entrepreneur from Indonesia who makes bags out of cement material, founder of Red Elephant foundation – Kirthi Jayakumar and even Zara Huseynova, founder of […]