women’s rights

Climate change exacerbates gender inequality, putting women’s health at risk
A photograph of four women, wearing sarees, standing in front of a hut. They are looking directly at the camera.

Reasons why SRHR is not prioritised—but should be—in climate change policies, strategies, financing, and programmes are because women’s contribution and roles as agents of change are often disregarded due to gender inequality.

By Curated Content
October 15, 2020
Climate change exacerbates gender inequality, putting women’s health at risk
The Politics of Self-Care and Feminism
Illustration on self-care

In a time when reason is more valued than emotion, unravelling and understanding the politics of self-care becomes all the more fundamental for us, and the movements we seek to develop and build. When our bodies, our emotions and our needs become weapons to be used against us, acts of defiance become rooted in thinking about your self and how we practice it.

By Curated Content
December 16, 2019
The Politics of Self-Care and Feminism
Feminism Through the Ages in India: An Empowering Journey
A black-and-white headshot of Savitribai Phule. She has covered her head with her saree, which has a white border. She is looking straight, expression-less. She has a big horizontal mark right at the centre of her forehead.

By Sanchari Pal about a year ago A hard hitting film that underlines a woman’s freedom to her body and sexuality, the recently…

By Curated Content
November 15, 2017
Feminism Through the Ages in India: An Empowering Journey
Interview: Manjula Pradeep

Manjula Pradeep is a lawyer and former Executive Director of the Navsarjan Trust, a grassroots organisation working to empower Dalits…

By Sonia Dhawan
October 3, 2017
Interview: Manjula Pradeep
नारीत्व ≠ मातृत्व
An illustration of what makes a family using stick figures. Several different scenarios is sepearate circles. One shows two men and a child; another - a man, a woman, and a child; two women and a child; a man and a child; a woman and a child; two men; a man and a woman; two women; a man, a cat, and a dog; and last - a woman, a cat, and a dog.

इस बात के अनेकों कारण हो सकते हैं कि महिलाएँ बच्चे क्यों नहीं चाहती हैं, ठीक वैसे ही जैसे इस बात के अनेकों कारण है कि वे बच्चे क्यों चाहती हैं। बच्चे होने के कारणों को सामान्य करार दिया जाना जबकि बच्चे ना होने की इच्छा को ‘सामान्य से अलग’ माना जाना, शर्मिंदा किया जाना और संदिग्ध की तरह करार दिया जाना, सभी के लिए नारीत्व का ‘एक ही अर्थ’ बनाने वाले है।

By Sheba Remy Kharbanda
October 17, 2016
नारीत्व ≠ मातृत्व
WOMAN. ENOUGH.
A black and white sketch of a group of women raising their fists in the air

It’s that time of the year again. Those 31 days during which we, the 49%, have a chance to be…

By Vani Subramanian
March 1, 2014
WOMAN. ENOUGH.