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  • CM Jagan Mohan Reddy flags off Disha patrol vehicles

    Disha is a project initiated in Andhar Pradesh to provide help to women and children in emergency situations.
  • The fallout of ban on Hijab in schools and colleges likely to have long-term effect

    It will affect Muslim women's education and push minorities backwards forced to take regressive steps
  • Odisha's Ganjam district is child marriage free

    This feat was achieved in two years under the Nirbhaya Kadhi Campaign launched in the district
  • Women helpdesks functional at 10,425 police stations across India: Ministry

    There are a total of 20,500 police stations in the country of which more than half have been covered under this initiative
  • Maharashtra plans to enact Shakti Act to curb crimes against women and children

    The act will be on the lines of the Disha Act which has been passed and implemented in Andhra Pradesh
  • 24-year-old woman performs self-abortion after watching YouTube videos

    Incident raises numerous questions on the content available on the video streaming platform
  • CJI calls for urgent correction of gender imbalance in the judiciary to grant 50 percent reservation to women

    Women constitute about 30 percent of the lower judiciary; 11.5 percent in High Courts and 12 percent in the Supreme Court. Also out of 1.7 million advocates, only 15 percent are women. And only 2 percent of elected representatives in state bar councils are women and no representation in Bar Council of India
  • A special week-long campaign to vaccinate high-risk transgenders & sex workers successfully undertaken

    Initiated by Aarohan, in association with CFAR and DLSA, the drive was part of an initiative by the Ministry of Health and Family Affairs to inoculate people from high-risk categories
  • Let down by US and facing uncertain future; Vulnerable Afghan women demand resettlement

    Staring at bleak future under strict Islamic rules, Afghan women approach UNCHR for free access to countries like Canada
  • The NWMI Stands in Solidarity with Afghan Women Journalists Amidst Taliban Takeover

    A statement issued by Network for Women in Media India (NWMI) in support of women journalists of Afghanisation even as fears of a return to the harsh Taliban regime of the 90s build up.
  • Ludhiana Commissioner of Police inaugurates Project Sawera for Empowerment of Rape victims

    The project is being launched in collaboration with the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII)
  • UP police arrests man for chopping head of woman who refused to have sex with him

    The accused confessed to the police that he and the victim had an illicit affair which was going on for a long time
  • Police detain a man for forcing former partner to convert her religion in MP

    The two were in a relationship for 15 years and have a 13-year-old daughter
  • India falls 28 places in the Global Gender Gap Index; places 140th out of 156 countries

    Bangladesh is placed at 65, the highest ranked country in South Asia while India is the third worse performing country in the region with Pakistan and Afghanistan bring up the rear.
  • Sexism on the Political Stage

    The Tamil political landscape has sexism written all over it, sometimes in capital letters. Sadly, sometimes women, too, perpetuate such attitudes.
  • Anand, Mehsana and Gandhinagar districts have the lowest sex ratio in Gujarat

    Despite being districts with high non-resident Indian population these districts still have skewed sex ratio. Bhavnagar has the highest sex ratio at 1,192 women for every 1000 males. Overall the sex ratio in Gujarat is 955 females for 1000 males.
  • Neetu Singh: The Maths Graduate Who Has Won One of Journalism’s Top Prizes

    This is the story of a journalist who has overcome huge odds with courage and grit from the hinterlands of Uttar Pradesh