NEW DELHI, Apr 7 : The two day legal awareness program for women from North East States in Delhi is the right initiative and is expected of the National Women’s Commission, said Union Minister of State for Home Affairs, Kiren Rijiju and added that it has come at the right time. Kiren Rijiju said this…
Reports have come in of an attack on Tribal Rights Activist and leader Soni Sori. Reports suggest that oil paint mixed with chemicals was thrown on her face by unknown assailants. This attack, which has left the activist in intense pain, and other reports of intimidation of persons such as lawyers and journalists working in…
Women still have a “long way to go” to achieve a status equal to men as granted by the Constitution and their real empowerment can be achieved only through economic empowerment, the Supreme Court has said. A bench of Justices A K Sikri and Abhay M Sapre made the observation while allowing the appeal of…
After years of suffering silently, women from India’s Dawoodi Bohra community has taken it upon themselves to end a practice that has haunted them for generations, Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). They have also started a month-long campaign ‘Each One Reach One’ in collaboration with Speak Out on FGM. The initiative kicks off on February 6…