Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by MENON Ritu
My Address Book for South Asia is a kind of (personalised) history of the issues and challenges we faced as women, and as feminists, in the region, and our response to them as writers and publishers
One of the first books we published as Kali — and the first that was co-published under licence (...)
, by HEMERY Sophie, SINGH Gayeti
Facing down intimidation, women all over this traditional region are speaking out about sexual harassment and violence.
Ali Zafar is famed across South Asia for his pop music, romantic comedies and even the occasional toothpaste advert. But last weekend he gave a particularly emotional (...)
, by The Wire (IN)
A new report presented at the International Labour Conference questions sourcing standards being followed by global clothing brands, and calls for greater accountability for widespread gender-based violence and harassment.
New Delhi: On September 27, 2017, Radhika, who is engaged in making (...)
, by South Asian Feminist Movements
We come from different countries in South Asia - Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Divided by geopolitical boundaries, we are all bound together by a common South Asian identity. This identity expresses itself both in the linkages we have with each other and in the struggles each of (...)
, by BERRY Varsha Rajan
“Idea of equality as a badge of honour for a nation and a society… unfettered equality…(implies that) if all men are equal, then all men are of the same essence, and the common essence entitles them of the same fundamental rights and equal liberty... In short, justice is another name of liberty, (...)
, by BERRY Varsha Rajan
This paper puts forward our view of South Asian Masculinities and how it engages with the systems of power, patriarchy, caste, religion and ethnicity etc. in the current socio-economic, political context.
In women’s studies discourse we have been saying that a woman is not born but made by (...)
, by HUNDLEY Tom
We hadn’t planned on going undercover, but clearly we looked the part. Me — the 60-year-old expat gone soft around the edges; she — the pretty, 20-something local girlfriend.
When we asked the rickshaw driver to take us to Jakarta’s Raden Saleh Street, his head swiveled and he gave me a knowing (...)
, par BELL Markus
The crisis of people-trafficking and sexual exploitation in Northeast Asia is not a nationalist issue ; it is a gender issue.
As a Pentagon report revealed widespread sexual abuse in the U.S. military , the mayor of Osaka, Japan, Toru Hashimoto, came up with a remedy. Speaking to a U.S. (...)
, by Members of the global women’s rights movement
Declaration Made at South Asian Women’s Conference on Women’s Political Participation and Representation (Katmandu, 11-12, September 2013).
We the women rights campaigners from south Asian Countries working in members of parliament, political parties, civil society organizations, business and (...)
, by AHRC
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
AHRC-STM-047-2012
March 8, 2012
ASIA: WOMEN’S DAY— Discrimination and violence hamper gender equity
Today marks the International Women’s Day, a day to reflect on the gains achieved by women in the respect and protection of their rights and to denounce the places in which (...)
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