How India Inc can help combat human trafficking February 4, 2014 DNA On 31 December 2013, Barack Obama declared January 2014 the National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month in the [...] Read more
Feminism has been made fun of for 40 years, give it another 60: Gloria Steinem February 4, 2014 Times of India She is the woman who famously said, A woman needs a man like a fish needs a [...] Read more
Excerpt: The Essential Gloria Steinem Reader February 4, 2014 Live Mint Prostitution isn’t the oldest profession. It’s the oldest oppression. One barrier to fighting both prostitution and sex trafficking [...] Read more
Comment: What gang rapes tell us about Delhi and the wider world February 3, 2014 SBS Coinciding with yet another brutal gang rape in Delhi is news that Delhi’s women and child welfare minister, Rakhi [...] Read more
Start Where You Are February 3, 2014 The Telegraph Protest need not always be about rousing moments of change, and, taking a leaf out of her early [...] Read more
‘Prostitution is commercial rape; don’t term prostitutes as sex workers’ January 30, 2014 Daily Bhaskar Kolkata: Close on the heels of Maharashtra State Women’s Commission member Asha Mirje’s controversial remark that Delhi-gang-rape victim [...] Read more
Let Them Live with Dignity January 30, 2014 The Telegraph The recent midnight raid at the house of a few African women in Delhi’s Khirki extension area by [...] Read more
Notes on a Tour of the Indian Women’s Movement January 30, 2014 New York Times MS. GUPTA : Walking through the red-light areas of Sonagachi or lobbying in Albany for the New [...] Read more
Violence against women severe now: Gloria Steinem January 27, 2014 Vancouver Desi Kolkata, Jan 25 (IANS) — The world is facing “great crisis” because of “severe” violence against women, said [...] Read more
The Feminine Way January 27, 2014 Dawn.com Ela Bhatt has to be one of India’s most influential change-makers. She founded and led self-help group SEWA – [...] Read more