Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
An attempt to synthesise the results of discussions held between the 3rd and 8th July, 1978
Preface
This report was published in the Bulletin of the Communist Platform, No. 2, June–September 1978, and is an attempt to present the discussions of two socialist feminist workshops held in Bombay (...)
“We are struggling to make ends meet. In this condition, we cannot prioritize her studies and buy a new phone,” said the mother of a thirteen-year-old.
Shravasti, Uttar Pradesh: “It has been six months since I read any book. My school closed in March and I have not been able to study after that,” (...)
Today, over 10,000 people from all walks of life, cutting across caste, religion, gender, occupation and community came together from almost every state in India and more than a dozen countries across the world such US, UK, Canada, Australia, UAE, Hong Kong, Japan, Nepal, Netherlands, Sweden, (...)
CASTE AND PATRIARCHY ASSERT THEIR UGLY POWER AGAIN.
AND THE STATE STANDS WITH THEM AGAINST THE BETIS OF INDIA!
Women’s groups condemn the horrific rape and murder of a young Dalit woman from Hathras, UP.
Stand with the family in their sorrow. Extend support, solidarity and rage.
Shame on the (...)
Another alarming statistic was that 40.3% of the survivors kept these incidents to themselves and a tiny fraction decided to approach the local internal complaints committee to lodge a complaint.
The lack of safety for women in India’s streets flows into its campuses, which fail to be the (...)
The labouring body is a combination of productive and reproductive functions, which act together to keep the market forces running. One cannot separate the surplus labour extracted by the market system, from the labour of parenting, running a home and further providing emotional care. These (...)
Increasing access to education, nutrition and job opportunities will go much further in terms of actually empowering India’s women, activists believe.
New Delhi: Child rights activists believe that by increasing the marriageable age for women from 18 to 21, the government is missing the (...)
Political Resolution Proposed by the Democratic Alliance for the Immediate Attention of the Public and the Government against the Atrocities against Rehna Fathima.
We, who work in artistic, cultural and socio-political arenas strongly protest against the atrocities perpetrated by the (...)
Sarada Muraleedharan speaks about the critical role of local self-governments in Kerala as part of the state’s robust response to COVID-19. She speaks about how Kerala’s history of decentralisation and participatory planning helped the Government implement effective contact tracing, quarantines (...)
Professor Mridul Eapen speaks about the historical and political context in Kerala that informed the state’s response to #COVID19. Eapen then elaborates on how Kerala ensured that the adverse impacts on women in terms of loss of livelihoods, wages and increase in workloads were addressed. (...)
Underpaid and over-burdened with endless surveys, reports and tasks, Sunita Rani and other ASHA workers of Haryana’s Sonipat district struggle to attend to the reproductive health needs of rural families
On a bright and sunny day, 39-year-old Sunita Rani is speaking to a group of around 30 (...)
It is the women who stay behind in the villages who sustain migration by supporting their men. We must not ignore them.
On March 24, prime minister Narendra Modi announced a complete lockdown of the country for 21 days to contain the spread of novel coronavirus. All transport operations were (...)
There is an urgent need for the Dalit women labourers of rural Punjab to organise themselves into unions and groups to take forward their battle for human existence. This is the view of intellectuals and activists on the ground who have been working with this segment of people, aired at a (...)
As PM Modi plans to hand over his social media accounts to ’inspiring women’, one may remind him that these women are fighting for their right to exist.
The home and the world are usually portrayed as binaries. Women, in such projections, are homemakers. Men inhabit the world outside.
Recent (...)
On a one-kilometre strip of road in Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh neighbourhood, hundreds of people, predominantly Muslim women are holding a dharna — a non-violent, sit-in protest — to stop the implementation of the Indian Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), National Register of Citizenship (NRC) and (...)
For 15 years, Bholi Devi has fought the stigma of being branded a ’dayan’ in Bhilwara district. The harassment drives many women in Rajasthan to loneliness and poverty, and is often a ploy to take over their property
Fifteen years have passed since the day in January 2005 when Bholi Devi Vishnoi (...)
Movements pioneered by early feminists should be studied with new theoretical inputs to deal with the challenges to the abolition of gender exploitation.
This is the text of Gail Omvedt’s inaugural lecture on Feminist Discourse, organised by the Department of Sociology, Savitribai Phule Pune (...)
Recommendations of the Justice Verma Commission, which could go a long way in making spaces safer for women, are yet to be implemented, they said.
New Delhi: It has been seven years since the gruesome December 16 gang rape and murder in Delhi, which stimulated spontaneous protests across the (...)
No group stands to lose as much as women do if the CAA-NRC are implemented. The Indian woman knows that, and knowledge guides her in the protests.
In this winter of discontent, in every procession, in every demonstration, in every protest – from JNU to Jamia or Aligarh to Jadavpur – the front (...)
The women of Jamalpur are ensuring their protest stays inclusive.
AMU Protests
The residential quarters of Aligarh Muslim University are segregated by the boundary wall of the campus from a large mixed mohalla of mostly pasmanda Muslims—washer-men, barbers, tailors, gardeners, etc—and some (...)
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