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Violence Against Rural Women in Relation to Land Rights

According to WHO, one in three women worldwide has experienced physical or/and sexual violence. However, Violence against women does not only entail physical or sexual violence but, takes many other forms such as psychological violence, or economical violence that is often overlooked. In this podcast, Dr. Soma and Ms. Poonam would draw the listener’s attention…
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The Role of the Civil Society: Changing Social Prejudices.

Tanya Malik. The focus of the Streedhan Association of Women’s Development is on educational intervention and social advocacy. Prior to this, I worked with an organisation in Mumbai, which dealt with women who face domestic violence in Maharashtra. What I realised with my experience, is that there is an immense knowledge gap when it comes…
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Deconstructing the Treatment of Women as Property

Engagement of women in active paid employment has increased more than tenfold in the past century in the United States. Much of it can be attributed to the feminist propaganda spread by the government to keep the economy of the county afloat while all able bodied men were deployed on the front in the European…
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Structural Gender Based Violence: Women and Workplace

In conversation with Dr. Albeena Shakil. Q. Constitutional laws on the prevention of women’s harassment, in principle, with regards to their treatment in the workplace exist within India, such as the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act. Despite existing, there is a lack of proper implementation, and a plethora of…
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Sexual Violence Against Dalit Women and the Pattern of Impunity

In this Samvaad discussion, Dr. Sowjanya Thamalpakula from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences guides us through the sexual violence committed against Dalit women and the pattern of impunity one can observe. She starts with discussing the Nirbhaya case that happened in 2012. In the process, she discusses in length of what might have actually…
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Understanding Domestic Abuse Signs, Responses & The Way Forward

PAIGAM Network and Sangh Collective, in conversation with Urvashi Batalia, discussed the issue of the rise in domestic abuse cases as a result of lockdown in India. The COVID-19 pandemic brought the whole world to a halt and forced everyone to lock up and stay home. While this was the only solution available to prevent…
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BOOK REVIEW: ‘HINDU RULERS, MUSLIM SUBJECTS’ BY DR. MRIDU RAI

Much of the history of Jammu and Kashmir has been written from the lens of ongoing territorial conflict between the nations of India and Pakistan. Within such a narrative a complex story of the Princely past of the state gets lost and we tend to forget the territorial limits of Indian nationalism as it existed.…
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Is the footwear industry putting their best foot forward?

India is the second-largest producer and second-largest consumer of footwear globally. Post-covid demand for formal footwear has been deeply impacted while that of open (casual) footwear has seen a good revival. In this article, Ashu Jain analyses the footwear industry in India.
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Cooking-Fuel Choice and Time-Use of Women

The article looks at data and the nature of biofuels and other fuel choices for cooking to understand the participation of women in different economic and non-economic activities.
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Mohalla Clinics: A way to achieve Universal Health Coverage

This article talks about the Mohalla Clinics, which was initiated by the Aam Aadmi Party Government in New Delhi, with an aim to provide community-level primary healthcare. The authors also discuses its’ basic services offered through the lens of overall coverage of the scheme.
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Side-lined States: Qatar and economic blockade

In this article, Amisha Singh looks at the diplomatically isolated country, Qatar and how it has done well despite the economic blockade, imposed by the Saudi-led coalition in June 2017. Which continues to date.
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Who got us here? Demographics in the US election

With Joe Biden being declared President-elect, this article analyses the voter break down to comment upon the role of gender and race in the 2020 Election.
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