Tag: violence

Efforts to prevent violence against women and girls should be based on careful identification of causes

When the world is faced with unprecedented environmental problems, violence and intolerance, we need the message of Gandhi more than ever before.

Are American schools really tolerant of the diversity in its cultural fabric or does racism continue to divide and disrupt practices of quality?

Lata Mani—a gifted scholar/seeker—inspires us to redefine the mode of cultural critique.

Erdogan’s decision to withdraw Turkey from the 2011 Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combatting Violence Against Women is the most despicable turn he has yet taken against women.

Vandana Shiva's penetrating observations and sharp reflections make us rethink the project of modernity - its instrumental rationality, its hyper-masculine doctrine of development and manipulation of nature, and its dualism that separates the knower from the known, science from ethics, and is centralizing/monopolizing tendency.

Former JNU student and activist Umar Khalid has been questioned by Delhi Police Special Cell and his phone has also been seized in Delhi violence case.

India accounts for 37% of female suicides in the world annually, do social stigma and lack of mental health awareness have a role to play?

With divorce being largely seen as a social taboo in India, women prefer to perish in oppressive marriages due to patriarchal oppression and financial constraints.

After Muzaffarpur and Deoria, Kanpur shelter home for minor girls highlights inhuman treatment at state-run facilities as 57 minor girls are found COVID-19 positive amid pandemic.