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25 Sep

“Loss To Women’s Movement”: Feminist Icon Kamla Bhasin Dies At 75

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Eminent women’s rights activist, poet and author Kamla Bhasin passed away on Saturday. She was 75. News of her demise was shared on Twitter by activist Kavita Srivastava earlier today. “Kamla Bhasin, our dear friend, passed away around 3am today 25th Sept. This is a big setback for the women’s movement in India and the South Asian region,” she tweeted. “She celebrated life whatever the adversity. Kamla you will always live in our hearts. In Sisterhood, which is in deep grief.” She was a regular in peace conferences and despite suffering from cancer she used to appear at various platforms…

18 Sep

Taliban replace women’s ministry with Ministry of Virtue and Vice, employees locked out

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The Taliban have replaced the country’s ministry for women with an office for what is known as the group’s moral police, residents of Kabul have said, as videos showed female former employees of the department apparently locked out of the building. Workers in Kabul were photographed on Friday replacing the sign on the women’s ministry building with a new one, which read, in a mixture of Dari and Arabic, “Ministries of Prayer and Guidance and the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice”. The Taliban has earlier carried out anti-human rights activities in Afghanistan during its rule between 1996 to…

02 Jul

Women in Turkey protest against withdrawal from gender protection treaty

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Women marched in Istanbul and other cities late Thursday to protest Turkey's formal exit from a European treaty aimed at preventing violence against women, saying the move stripped them of critical protection at a time when femicides are on the rise. Turkey signed the treaty, called the Istanbul Convention, in 2011.In March, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan issued an unexpected decree announcing Turkey’s intention to withdraw from the treaty, which he and members of his Islamist party have framed as part of a Western plot aimed at harming conservative notions of family and encouraging homosexuality. Ankara’s exit from the treaty took…

26 Jun

M C Josephine resigns as Kerala Women’s Commission chairperson after row over remarks

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A day after her alleged insensitive remarks sparked a row in Kerala, the Women's Commission chairperson MC Josephine resigned on Friday, as women activists of the opposition Congress and BJP took out protest marches against her comment. Josephine, a central committee member of the ruling CPI(M), had courted controversy when she spoke harshly to a woman complainant of domestic violence during a live television programme of a Malayalam channel on Wednesday, causing embarrassment to the Marxist party. The matter was discussed at the state secretariat, which met on Friday, and attended by top party leaders, including Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan.…

29 Jan

Women’s safety : Unlawful procedures by Govt of Assam regarding VLTD in public vehicles

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soon after the horrifying Nirbhaya gang rape in the national capital in the year 2012, the Government of India set up a Committee headed by late Hon’ble Justice (Retd.) J.S. Verma to recommend amendments of Criminal Laws to enable address the issue of Crime against Women. Among the several issues looking into by the committee, the Committee also looked into the issue of provision of adequate safety measures and amenities for women. In this regard, the Committee had given several recommendations, one of them being that “all buses should be fitted with tamper proof GPS systems.”Taking a step towards implementing…