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Centre Publishes Draft ‘Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Rules, 2020’; Invites Suggestions/Objections From Stakeholders
14 Jul 2020
The draft rules inter-alia provide for the procedure to make an application for the issue of a certificate of identity under the Act.
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1.85 Million Abortions Have Been Compromised in India During Lockdown: Study
07 Jul 2020
“Given the impact of COVID-19, facility-based first or second-trimester abortion may be the only option for the majority of the 1.85 million women,” said the study.
Subhashini Ali
End of Helpline 181: Important Questions for Uttar Pradesh
07 Jul 2020
This is the story about Ayushi as much as it is also the story of a government’s callousness and antipathy towards the women of Uttar Pradesh.
RUCHIRA GUPTA, BABURAO BAGUL
Woman of the Street
04 Jul 2020
The term ‘sex-worker’ cannot erase the trauma of body-invasion.
Tanya Wadhwa
Indignation in Colombia Amid Spree of Assassinations and the Rape of an Indigenous Girl by Soldiers
01 Jul 2020
The wave of assassinations and acts of sexual violence carried out by security forces and paramilitary groups against Colombian civilians in the past week has shaken the country.
Syed Ubaidur Rahman
Anti-CAA Movement Changed Muslim Women Forever
30 Jun 2020
The protests did not have a benign fallout for many of the protesters yet intimidation apparently scares them no longer.
Abdul Alim Jafri
UP: Women’s Helpline Service Employees, Unpaid for 11 Months, Asked to Quit
27 Jun 2020
The helpline, which was launched in UP on March 8, 2016, after the Delhi gangrape case, has helped over 5 lakh women and rescued 3.5 lakh women until January.
Dipa Sinha, Sona Mitra
Women’s Employment Amid a Pandemic: What Are We Missing?
18 Jun 2020
Low and declining women’s labour force participation rates in India have been a longstanding concern.
Shiney Chakraborty, Priyanka Chatterjee
Stark Reality of Women’s Employment in India: Insights from the Periodic Labour Force Survey
17 Jun 2020
The analysis suggests that women are the worst casualties of the labour market crisis in India. Since they cannot afford to be unemployed, they were forced to take whatever mode of employment was…
Daniya Rahman, Tahira Naqvi
“Chughtai Mastered the Art of Giving Women a Voice”
05 Jun 2020
A translator of Urdu fiction and prose, Tahira Naqvi has taught Urdu at Columbia University and now heads the Urdu programme at New York University. She has translated Chughtai’s short stories, …