Tag: women’s rights

Vrinda Grover: CJI Bobde's 'marry the victim' remark to rape accused trivialises sexual violence, denudes survivor of rights and personhood

I am deeply troubled and angry, though not shocked. Any person believing in equality and dignity of women, the right of a girl and woman over her own body, sexual autonomy and right to self-determination over their own lives and futures, will be enraged. Basically, anyone who considers women as human beings will oppose and… Read More Vrinda Grover: CJI Bobde's 'marry the victim' remark to rape accused trivialises sexual violence, denudes survivor of rights and personhood

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CJI Sharad Arvind Bobde Must Step Down Now For Asking Rapist to Marry Victim, and Condoning Marital Rape

NB: Newpapers today reported the Chief Justice of India asking an alleged rapist whether he would be willing to marry his victim, a minor girl. Many of us are rendered speechless at the utter depravity of the suggestion that survivors of rape can somehow be compensated for the violence done to them by being married… Read More CJI Sharad Arvind Bobde Must Step Down Now For Asking Rapist to Marry Victim, and Condoning Marital Rape

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Geetanjali Gayatri: Agitation against farm laws turns the spotlight on Punjabi women

History is replete with stories of their heroism because valour runs in the Punjabi blood. But, unfortunately, so does patriarchy. And, there is absolutely no dearth of ghastly tales of honour killing, of female foeticide, of subjugation of the fairer sex and worse. These, however, are dark alleys and just not the place to be… Read More Geetanjali Gayatri: Agitation against farm laws turns the spotlight on Punjabi women

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Martin Chulov: Saudi women's rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul released from prison // Bill Law: Can America’s Favorite Police State ever Change?

NB: The fact that this activist has been forbidden to talk about her experience in jail, where she was molested and beaten shows that the Saudi Arabia is one of the most viciously misogynistic regimes in the world. We should never forget the brutal murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi. DS The prominent Saudi dissident and women’s… Read More Martin Chulov: Saudi women's rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul released from prison // Bill Law: Can America’s Favorite Police State ever Change?

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Pakistan: Family of 12 year-old girl forced to marry her abductor condemn authorities

The family of a 12-year-old girl in Pakistan who was chained up in a cattle pen for more than six months, after allegedly being kidnapped and forced to marry her abductor, have attacked the authorities for refusing to act. The case is among those now being examined by a government inquiry into the forced conversions of religious minority… Read More Pakistan: Family of 12 year-old girl forced to marry her abductor condemn authorities

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Book review – Mary Wollstonecraft: Philosophy, Passion, and Politics

While Mary Wollstonecraft earned her place at the table for pioneering women in Judy Chicago’s art installation The Dinner Party (1974–9), she would not be everyone’s ideal guest. She has a reputation as an acerbic killjoy. She deemed novels to be the ‘spawn of idleness’. She did not embrace women in sisterhood but censured them for their… Read More Book review – Mary Wollstonecraft: Philosophy, Passion, and Politics

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Press Conference to condemn the Arrest and Sexual Violence of Nodeep Kaur by Haryana Police. 3 pm on Saturday, 23 January 2021. Press Club of India, New Delhi

Press Conference Condemning Nodeep Kaur’s Arrest and Custodial Sexual Violence by Haryana Police Date: January 23rd, 2021 (Saturday) Time: 3 pm Venue: Press Club of India (1, Raisina Road, Near Central Secretariat Metro, Windsor Place, New Delhi, Delhi 110001) Campaign for the Release of Nodeep Kaur! On January 12th, as the Kisan Andolan continued unabated, Nodeep Kaur, a… Read More Press Conference to condemn the Arrest and Sexual Violence of Nodeep Kaur by Haryana Police. 3 pm on Saturday, 23 January 2021. Press Club of India, New Delhi

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Satarupa Chakraborty: CJI's Remarks on Women Farmers Are an Assault on Human Agency and Constitutional Rights / Pratap Bhanu Mehta: SC’s order on the farm bills is terrible constitutional precedent, bereft of judgment

Chastising the Centre for its handling of the farmers’ protest, the Supreme Court on January 11 observed that it will not pass an order that “citizens should not protest”. This was encouraging. But subsequent remarks made by the Chief Justice of India (CJI) S.A. Bobde, have given cause for concern. He asked: “Why are women and elders kept in the… Read More Satarupa Chakraborty: CJI's Remarks on Women Farmers Are an Assault on Human Agency and Constitutional Rights / Pratap Bhanu Mehta: SC’s order on the farm bills is terrible constitutional precedent, bereft of judgment

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'A backlash against a patriarchal culture': How Polish protests go beyond abortion rights. By Jon Henley and Kasia Strek

For 14 nights they have marched, enraged by a near-total ban on abortion that has stirred a generation to stage the largest mass demonstrations that Poland has seen since Solidarność toppled the communist regime in the 1980s. Until soaring coronavirus numbers and a looming national lockdown made it almost impossible, up to a million people nightly defied… Read More 'A backlash against a patriarchal culture': How Polish protests go beyond abortion rights. By Jon Henley and Kasia Strek

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