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Multiple testimonies by victims of gender violence The courts tend to take an insensitive stand on the multiple, and often contradictory, versions of victims/survivors of gender violence - whether it's Zaheera Sheikh of the Best Bakery case or a woman widowed in the 1984 riots. Surely the trauma of the individual concerned should be taken into consideration? More... Love, inter-caste marriage and criminal lawThe Supreme Court recently ruled that there is no bar on inter-caste or inter-religion marriages under the Hindu Marriage Act. Anyone who harasses, threatens or subjects such a couple to acts of violence will be prosecuted More... Looking after children of women prisonersIn response to a public interest litigation, the Supreme Court of India has issued directions to the central and state governments to provide children of women prisoners in jail, and their mothers, the facilities and opportunity to lead normal healthy lives More... WTO Ministerial: Story of a farce foretoldThe protests and demonstrations outside the Hong Kong Convention Centre were more telling than the predictable negotiations inside it, reports John Samuel. They indicated that the WTO debate is spilling out of the mystified ivory towers of policy into the political domain of the streets and slums More... The violence against women campaign: Where have we failed?For 25 years women's rights advocates have been campaigning against violence against women. They have succeeded in changing the law, changing the stand of the judiciary. But have they succeeded in changing social attitudes, asks Flavia Agnes, lawyer and noted activist More... Saving the tiger, the Indian wayIf relocating the 66,000 families that live in India's 28 protected areas is not feasible, the solution, according to tiger task force chairperson Sunita Narain, is to include the tribals in the protection of this endangered species, giving them a share in the profits from the tourist trade in the sanctuaries More... WTO: Getting the jargon rightOn the shaky terminological grounds of the WTO and its alphabet soup of acronyms such as NAMA and TRIPS, rests the future of 800 million farmers, industrial workers and artisans in India alone. Developing countries must be empowered to decipher the jargon More... They don't buy itInequalities will persist if we continue to look at India's poor only as consumers More... Succession, gender equality and customary tribal lawsThe recent Hindu Succession Amendment Bill, making the daughter a member of the coparcenary, will make no difference to tribal women, since customary tribal laws continue to discriminate against women in the matter of succession More... Why isn't rainwater harvesting taken seriously?What is it about rainwater harvesting that fails to get the attention of people, institutions and the government? At the 12th International Rainwater Catchment Systems Conference, that opens in Delhi on November 15, proponents of water harvesting from several countries will gather to discuss an idea that unfortunately does not feature very high on the water agenda of most nations More... The media: Holding up a mirror to ourselvesIs the media no more than a mouthpiece for those in power? More... A brief history of the battle against sexual harassment at the workplaceSexual harassment at the workplace has been one of the central concerns of the women's movement in India since the '80s. Presently, women's groups are lobbying to get the bill on sexual harassment at the workplace, 2005, passed by Parliament More... New farm subsidy proposals: All sound and fury, signifying nothingThe 'new' proposals from the US and European Union that promise to cut farm subsidies drastically, appear to be a giant step forward in agricultural trade talks. In reality, the US proposal will only bring down the level of support from $ 74.7 billion to $ 73.1 billion. For the EU it would mean no reduction at all in existing support to farmers More... The World Bank's misguided advocacy of large water storage facilitiesIn its new report, the World Bank states that India's dams can store only 200 cubic metres of water per person against the US's 5,000 cubic metres per capita. But before advocating more large water storage facilities, the Bank should consider why India is losing over 36 billion cubic metres of existing storage capacity every year More... |
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