Fresh Triple Talaq Bill Introduced in Lok Sabha, Opposition Members Protest

While giving triple talaq is a “non-bailable” offence as per the bill, an accused can approach a magistrate even before trial to seek bail.

Religious and Market Fundamentalisms Threaten Gender Equality at UN Summit

UN Commission on the Status of Women opening session, March 2019. | Photo: Li Muzi/Xinhua News Agency/PA Images. All rights reserved.

As the US fosters a backlash at the UN Commission on the Status of Women, states from Lebanon to Namibia are taking more progressive positions.

Globally, Women’s Pay Is 20% Lower Than Men’s: ILO Report

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In India, women with children under six years of age make up about 10.2% of managers. 89.8 per cent managers with children under six years of age are men.

International Women’s Day: Women Have Been Written Out of Power– Time is Ripe For a New Language of Equality

2018 #HearOurVote women’s March in San Francisco. Gregory Varnum via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-NC-SA

The need for a conscious change or awareness of how words are used has become ever more urgent – for inclusivity in communication and to support gender equality.

We Have to Stop Blaming ‘Backward’ Culture for Female Genital Mutilation and Child Marriage

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These issues have received increased global attention. But simple attacks on ‘tradition and culture’ just fuel the backlash to women’s rights.

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