A workers’ movement that started in Punjab’s Malwa region last year has started to reach out to the fairer sex too. Women brick kiln workers from across the state will assemble at Bathinda on April 22 as part of the first convention in the state that would be devoted to women workers from the unorganized…
Unnao (UP): Rooting for Muslim women’s right to enter mosques, firebrand BJP leader Sakshi Maharaj on Saturday asked the judiciary to mediate so that they could get their due. “Muslim women should also have right to enter mosques as the Hindu women have the right to enter and perform puja in temples”, Sakshi Maharaj, local…
The All India Muslim Personal Law Board on Saturday decided to depute its six women members to create awareness about rights of Muslim women enshrined in the Shariyat (Islamic jurisprudence). The Board members, who met at Nadwatul Ulama on Saturday, also directed women members to ensure concerns related to women’s rights as per Shariyat were…
After days of confrontation, the Shani Shingnapur trust today allowed women devotees to enter the sanctum sanctorum of the famous temple. The temple officials held a meeting and reportedly made a decision to allow a limited number of both men and women to enter the area, after a brief time period of confusion, when over…
NEW DELHI, March 18 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – For as long as she can remember, Panchi Sahariya and those in her tribal community in central India have been threatened, harassed, beaten and even arrested for living on land which does not legally belong to them. But there is no where else to go, she says.…
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 15 (PTI): India has enabling conditions for gender equality and is updating the National Policy for Women to establish a solid foundation for accelerating its commitment to women’s empowerment, Union Minister Maneka Gandhi has said. “Ensuring gender equality, promoting women’s empowerment and combating discrimination and violence against women are integral to our…
A notable feature of the university protests that have rocked the nation in recent times is the prominent presence of women. Dalit research scholar Rohith Vemula’s mother Radhika was hounded by the media, and her personal life vilified in the attempt to prove that Rohith was not a Dalit. The faculty members from Jawaharlal Nehru…