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The photographs emerging from the Jamia protest — not just the iconic video featuring the four but also women breaking stereotypes in all— women protests, offering roses to police, giving clear soundbytes, or just claiming their place on the streets — show courage and tenacity, clarity and commitment. More important, they tell us that women […]

We’ve done the easy part — brought in tough laws, sanctioned fast-track courts, reduced the age of juveniles, and raised the age of consent. Now comes the hard part of mindset change, of demonstrating the will to stamp out violence against women, of realising there are no short-cuts or half-measures Change begins at home. Media

One in three women worldwide faces violence. But in a post-MeToo era, conversation around sexual violence is in the open and so is the need for change. Globally one in three and, in South Asia, 37% of women face some form of violence: Physical, emotional, financial and, increasingly, online(Raj K Raj/HTphoto) Women have been told

India has the largest number of underage brides in the world and 26.8% of girls marry before they are 18 . This is the age of consent under a 2012 amendment, which makes even those under 18, in consensual relationships, vulnerable to parental backlash, with boyfriends and husbands branded as sex offenders. The story of

Perhaps the biggest transformation has taken place in rural India where in 2016, 70% of 18-year-olds were already in college. But do they want daughters to pursue careers? That’s another story. The surge of women and girls in education is an ongoing trend that every year makes tiny, but significant, gains(PTI) To call Sunita Khokar’s

A conversation that began post the December 16 Delhi gangrape has grown louder. We may be miles away from a world free of sexual assault, but we are certainly a few notches closer If India’s MeToo movement has achieved anything, it is awareness, among corporates and employees, of the law; among predatory bosses that it’s

Concerns about a national law on population revolve around two questions. Will it be coercive and will it further skew our already precarious sex ratio? Days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke of India’s ‘population explosion’ in his Independence Day speech, an RSS-backed organisation declared that there was no need for sex education in schools.

Despite the hardships they face, teenage girls are pushing back for change Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, before starting her journey across the Atlantic to New York where she will attend the UN Climate Action Summit next month(AFP) One is on a zero-carbon Atlantic voyage to attend climate change conferences in New York. Greta Thunberg,

From Unnao to Wayanad, the lesson is clear. Women who speak up against sexual assault are sought to be silenced by men who are backed by institutional support People rally in solidarity with the Unnao rape victim, New Delhi, July 29. The Unnao case is a chilling demonstration of what happens when women speak up(AFP)

Most Indian women athletes face hurdles — from gender bias (girls can’t play; it’s unseemly; they will become dark) to lack of opportunity. In many cases, they must also grapple with poverty In many cases, Indian women athletes must grapple with poverty. Hima Das, who brought home four gold medals in 15 days, is the

In a country where 52% of women believe it is okay to be beaten by their husbands, the views of Sandeep Reddy Vanga, director Kabir Singh, apparently endorsing physical violence as a sign of love, are deeply disturbing. In the first 10 years since the Domestic Violence Act came into force in 2006, over 10

When the religion of the perpetrators becomes more important than the crime, you are witnessing a civilisational breakdown These are a fraction of the horror stories in a country where, according to National Crime Records Bureau data for 2016, not updated since, 19,764 rape cases were registered — an 82% jump in rape cases from