A bench comprising of Justices NV Ramana, MM Shantanagoudar and Ajay Rastogi issued a notice to the centre, asking if the residential rights can be given to the women under the Protection from Domestic Violence Act.
The #MeToo exposes in India are becoming increasingly widespread. Starting with young women in the film industry – in fact, they started in the Telugu and Malayalam film industries last year but only gained momentum in the mainstream and social media after an actor in the Hindi film industry accused another veteran actor of sexual […]
In India, marriage is considered as a pure institution that not only ties two individuals but two families. Despite this, the number of crimes against married women aka daughters-in-law have been surging incessantly. Be it dowry deaths or domestic violence, the numbers have been increasing at an alarming rate. It is ironical that most women […]
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 […]
It’s 2017 and the fact that we need this blog, focussed on women rights India, convincing the people of the world that women’s rights coincide with human rights, points to exactly what and how serious the problem is. In case you don’t know, the world celebrated the Human Rights day on the 10th of December […]
Women’s rights are human rights. These famous words were said by Hillary Clinton in a speech she delivered on Sept. 5, 1995, in a suburb of Beijing, focusing on issues women repeatedly face across the world. In 2017, we are still discussing this, and that’s truly the tragedy of all humanity. “Human rights are women’s […]
The Bench stated that how she( a woman) wants to deal with this pregnancy must be a decision she, and she alone, can make.
The group filed the affidavit a day after the (AIMPLB) defended its stance on Triple Talaq by saying that it is better to divorce a woman than to kill her.
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