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Muslim Women Seek Gender Equality in Marriage
| 2012/04/24 For more than a decade, Muslim women’s organizations in India have been fighting for changes in the body of Islamic law that governs marriage, divorce and the property rights of women. But as the All-India Muslim Personal Law Board held its annual convention in Mumbai last week, the battle lines had never been so starkly drawn. Although the Indian Constitution guarantees equal rights to all citizens irrespective of their religion, Muslims are governed by the Muslim Personal Law (Shariat) Application Act of 1937. Attempts to apply a common civil code have often been viewed as interference in the practices of India’s largest religious minority. Read more at NY Times |
| Relates to India |
| Sectors: Gender Discrimination |
Women Break New Ground as Tea Growers
| 2011/11/30 A handful of women in northeastern India are joining the tea-cultivating ranks of small growers. They've left behind their jobs on large plantations and are plucking tea leaves and income from their own gardens. Read more at Women's E-News |
| Relates to India |
| Sectors: Agriculture/Food Security, Business, Empowerment |
Global: Women's Health is More Than an Economic Issue
| 2011/11/23 While higher income levels mean countries have more money to improve women's health, ultimately it comes down to how governments decide to spend the money. Read more at The Guardian |
| Relates to India |
| Sectors: Economic Empowerment, Education, Empowerment, Health, HIV/AIDS, Human Rights, Reproductive Health, Reproductive Rights, Single Mothers, Teen Pregnancy/Mothers, Violence Against Women |
India: SEWA to Provide Solar Lanterns and Energy Efficient Stoves to Its Members
| 2011/11/19 International Finance Corporation, a member of the World Bank Group, is helping India's Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA) provide energy-efficient cook stoves and solar lanterns to more than 200,000 of its members in Rajasthan and Gujarat over the next three years. Read more at The Hindu |
| Relates to India |
| Sectors: Climate Change, Education, Environment, Gender Discrimination, Human Rights |
285 Indian girls replace names meaning ‘unwanted’ to rise above gender discrimination
| 2011/10/22 More than 200 Indian girls whose names mean “unwanted” in Hindi have chosen new names for a fresh start in life. A central Indian district held a renaming ceremony Saturday that it hopes will give the girls new dignity and help fight widespread gender discrimination that gives India a skewed gender ratio, with far more boys than girls. Read more at Washington Post |
| Relates to India |
| Sectors: Empowerment, Female Feticide, Gender Discrimination |
Job Rolling Tobacco Sickens India's Women
| 2011/10/18 Dr. S.N. Mohanty believes that ingesting tobacco also hurts reproductive health. "Although no survey has been done here on the health of women beedi workers, 80 to 85 percent of them are malnourished, experience frequent abortions and miscarriages and give birth to stillborn or low-birth weight babies." Read more at Women's enews |
| Relates to India |
| Sectors: Health, Reproductive Health |
Women Challenge Arranged Marriage in India, Fight Culture of Honor Killing
| 2011/10/05 As the practice of arranged marriage remains common in India, many say that young people should be able to decide for themselves whom they marry. But parents say that arranged marriages are more reliable than love marriages and that they can find better matches for their children than the children can find for themselves. For some, going against family wishes has grave consequences. Honor killing when it comes to marriage is still common . The government of India has outlawed honor killing, but it does not have any laws against either arranged marriages or intercaste marriages. Meanwhile, nongovernmental organizations, NGOs, are advocating against honor killing and for intercaste and love marriages. Read about Aastha(Not her real name) , 39, A project manager for an information technology company in Mumbai whose father no longer speaks to her because she married a man from a different caste http://www.globalpressinstitute.org/global-news/asia/india/women-challen... Read more at Global Press Institute |
| Relates to India |
| Sectors: Empowerment, Female Feticide, Gender Discrimination, Human Rights, Violence Against Women |
Why Do Indian Women Drop Out of the Workforce?
| 2011/09/12 Despite India’s rapid economic growth, why are more and more women opting out of the workforce? A recent study casts light on this important and potentially worrying development in the Indian labor market. “Gender Diversity Benchmark for Asia 2011” by Community Business surveyed 21 large multinational companies in six countries in Asia — China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Malaysia and Singapore — to see how women are doing at junior, middle and senior levels of management. Read more at Wall Street Journal |
| Relates to India |
| Sectors: Business, Economic Empowerment |
Every second girl is a child bride in West Bengal
| 2011/09/10 Every second girl in the high prevalence child marriage districts of West Bengal were married off before they reach 18, the legal age for girls to get wedded, a UNICEF report said. Read more at The Hindu |
| Relates to India |
| Sectors: Child Marriage |
Women in Local Politics Offer Biggest Benefit
| 2011/08/08 An important recent study by Harvard Business School professor Lakshmi Iyer and her co-authors is the first systematic attempt to test the impact of women’s political empowerment on the incidence of crimes against women. Using the 1993 constitutional amendment that mandated a reservation of one-third for women at the level of village government, or Panchayats, the authors are able to test statistically whether the increase in women’s representation had an effect on crimes against women at the local level. They find that mandated political representation for women resulted in a 44% increase in reported crimes against women, with rapes per capita rising by 23%, and kidnapping increasing by 13% in the period 1985-2007. On the face of it, this is bad news and might represent “retaliation” against women who are now in power. However, the authors find that their results instead reflect an increase in the reporting of crimes against women, rather than their actual incidence. Read more at Wall Street Journal |
| Relates to India |
| Sectors: Empowerment, Political Participation/Governance, Violence Against Women |
9 girls rescued from India's red light district
| 2011/08/02 The suspected manager of a New Delhi brothel where police recently rescued several underage girls has been charged with kidnapping, rape and forcing girls into prostitution, a police officer said Tuesday. One of the girls rescued is 10 years old, said Triveni Acharya, the president of the Mumbai-based Rescue Foundation, an anti-trafficking group that tipped off police. Read more at CNN |
| Relates to India |
| Sectors: Commercial Sexual Exploitation, Trafficking |
India's missing women
| 2011/07/22 Half a million girls a year are being aborted in India, equal to the total number of girls born in the UK. The scale of sex selection in Asia is extraordinary, yet it has not attracted the attention it deserves in the west. This is the age of "missing women" - an estimated 30 to 70 million of them. The number of girls born has dropped significantly because of sex selective abortions, and the sex imbalance has been aggravated by higher mortality rates as boys receive better care. Read more at Guardian UK |
| Relates to India |
| Sectors: Female Feticide, Gender Discrimination, Reproductive Health, Reproductive Rights |
Indian women alter SlutWalk to better match country’s conservatism
| 2011/07/22 A young man follows a teenage girl along a street in India’s capital on a recent muggy morning, leering. The girl, wearing jeans topped with a long tunic, quickens her steps. As the man closes in, she covers her mouth with her hands. Bystanders cover their eyes. Read more at Washington Post |
| Relates to India |
| Sectors: Empowerment, Gender Discrimination |
Delhi govt to impose heavy fine for sex test
| 2011/07/12 The Delhi government is planning to impose "heavy" fine and tougher punishment on those involved in heinous practices such as sex determination in violation of the Preconception and Prenatal Diagnostic Techniques Act, 1994. Read more at The Times of India |
| Relates to India |
| Sectors: Health, Reproductive Health, Reproductive Rights, Violence Against Women |
Indian girls persuade parents they are too young for marriage
| 2011/06/29 Dressed in crisp white saris, 14-year-old Seema and 13-year-old Rumi giggle together outside the adolescent girls' club in their tea plantation village in Dibrugarh, north-east India. For the friends, the blue-painted clubhouse is more than just somewhere to socialise – it's where they are forging bonds that are transforming their futures. Read more at Guardian UK |
| Relates to India |
| Sectors: Child Marriage |
Indian women world's most stressed
| 2011/06/28 Women around the world feel stressed and pressed for time, but women in emerging markets are more stressed than their sisters in developed nations -- and Indian women say they are the most stressed of all, according to a survey published on Tuesday. Read more at Trust.org |
| Relates to India |
| Sectors: Human Rights |
India's women solar engineers light up rural life
| 2011/06/22 Mira Bai frowns in concentration at the complicated zigzag of wires on the panel in front of her. Unfathomable to most, they speak loud and clear to the 60-year-old grandmother. Despite being illiterate, she now knows exactly which wires to connect to create the magical connection between the sun and the panel so it absorbs and transfers rays to the battery that will later light up her house. This article features a project by Barefoot College. Read more at Trust.org |
| Relates to India |
| Sectors: Business, Economic Empowerment, Education, Elder Women, Empowerment, Information Communication Technology (ICT) |
| Other Sector/s: Barefoot College |
India may fund women candidates for transparency
| 2011/06/20 India's law ministry wants the government to fund women candidates during polls, saying it will help keep a check on election funding and provide an incentive for them to join politics. Read more at Trust Law |
| Relates to India |
| Sectors: Empowerment, Political Participation/Governance |
Officials crack the whip on child marriages
| 2011/06/19 Kiran Kumar Reddy may have made for a pretty picture helping a girl child write at a government school in Ameerpet, but it is in the distant revenue division of Adoni in Kurnool district that a real revolution is actually unfolding. Revenue officials here have stopped a whopping 400 child marriages in less than two months. Read more at Times of India |
| Relates to India |
| Sectors: Child Marriage, Commercial Sexual Exploitation, Gender Discrimination, Trafficking, Violence Against Women |
Taunts Derail Sex Workers' Kids in Kolkata
| 2011/06/14 Sex workers in Kolkata are enrolling their children in school. But the kids often don't make it through secondary school, when derision from peers, along with pressures to earn a living, intensify. Read more at Women's Enews.org |
| Relates to India |
| Sectors: Commercial Sexual Exploitation, Education, Gender Discrimination |
