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Journalist Kalpana Sharma Raises Questions That Remain Unresolved By #MeToo Movement

If you run a quick search on rape statistics in India, the first result reads, ‘Rape is the fourth most common crime against women in India.’ The popular headlines and the number of articles tha...
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Filmmaker Leena Manimekalai On Shame As The Dangerous Tool Of Violence Against Women

“Through the entire process of making ‘My Story Is Your Story’, Rahanas helped me resolve a lot of fears, dilemmas and questions I have piled inside me as someone who has faced abuse too,” sha...
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Remedial Trainer Roseline Gomes On The Psychology Of Patriarchy Behind The Marital Rape

66% of married women have experienced physical or sexual violence when the husband is an alchoholic; only 10% of married victims of sexual violence seek help. The statistics on marital rape tell a ...
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LGBTQI+ Activists On Politics, Violation Of Human Rights, And Misogyny Within The Trans Community

Update: On Tuesday, the Rajya Sabha passed the Transgender Persons’ (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2019, even though several Opposition members urged the House to send the Bill to a committee for fu...
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Research Scholar Ishita Sinha On Importance Of Documenting Our Indigenous Resources

“Forgetting our indigenous knowledge base has cost us deeply – both socially and ecologically. It’s a good thing that we have begun to realize our mistakes,” says Ishita, topper and research ...
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Activist Masooma Ranalvi Helps Us Lift The Silence Around Female Genital Mutilation

Update: A petition seeking a ban on FGM — also called female circumcision, where a part or whole of the external genitalia is removed — is pending before the SC. The Supreme Court on November 14...
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Sahiyo’s Mariya Explains To Us How A Law Banning Female Genital Cutting Would Not Be Enough To Stop It

Female Genital Cutting (FGC) is a religious practice, where a part of the girl’s clitoris is cut in lieu of “controlling her sexual desires.” Dawoodi Bohras, the community spread around the wor...
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Experts Weigh In On The Most Efficient Methods To Make Mobile Crèches A Possibility On Construction Sites

Today, India is on the path to becoming ‘an empowered nation’ but in all this we often forget the people from the informal sector, who make up 93% of the workforce that our country boasts of. In ...

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