September 24, 2013

Event Announcement: Panel Discussion

By Dilnavaz Bamboat

 

 

 

 

 

Reclaiming Rights: Challenging Gender-based Violence in South Asia

Date and time: Wednesday, September 25, 2013; 6 to 8 pm

Venue: International Development Exchange (IDEX), 333 Valencia St., Suite 250, San Francisco

About the event:

The Delhi and Mumbai gangrapes have garnered critical public attention, outrage, and mobilising in India […]

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September 16, 2013

We Shall Overcome

By Rajiv Khanna

 

THE RAPE OF THE 23-year old medical student, Ms. Jyoti Singh Pandey, in New Delhi in December 2012 outraged many around the world. Sadly, for those of us with ties to India, this crime, as horrific and shocking as it was, did not come as a complete surprise. More recently, the same act was […]

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August 26, 2013

Why Loitering is worth the Risk

By Guest Contributor

By Shilpa Phadke, Sameera Khan and Shilpa Ranade

We post an extract from our book Why Loiter? Women and Risk on Mumbai Streets in the wake of the recent gangrape of a journalist in Mumbai. It is true that women get attacked in public spaces in cities (and elsewhere), but it is also […]

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