Violence Against Women News

More than half of all female homicide victims last year were killed by intimate partners or relatives, the report found

The legal system, patriarchy created an environment for men to prey on women and for victims to remain silent. The situation is changing and civil society action must follow to make it too costly to be a sexual predator

Preventing sexual violence requires dismantling gender constructs that sustain and normalize gender-based violence

HR departments are up to the mark when dealing with sexual harassment against women in the workplace but are found lacking when it comes to more complex social issues

For outrage over the Kathua rape victim, apart from having basic humanity, one must follow the news, ideally from multiple sources, and have an education to articulate outrage

Three challenges stand in the way of justice for ordinary Indians: low trust in the police force, the slow pace of the judiciary, and the growing criminalization of politics

Let the image of Orijit Sen's happy girl picking flowers in the meadow remind you that something is rotten

Poet and Dalit activist Pradnya Daya Pawar on the historical and contemporary Dalit concerns, victimization of Dalit women, literature as the weapon of Dalit activism, and the contemporary social, cultural and political climate

In a speech in Paris, French president Emmanuel Macron said the fight against violence towards women would be 'the great cause' of his five years in office, adding that France needed to 'win this fight'

Not content with his removal as the party's general secretary, a section of the Congress, especially women, has demanded the resignation of M. Vincent