by NWMI | May 23, 2019 | Blogs, Features
Media reports about sexual violence may be geared towards raising awareness and justice but the images themselves sometimes end up doing damage instead because they reinforce the stereotype of women as “easy prey”, in turn encouraging rape culture.
by NWMI | May 20, 2019 | 2019 Parliamentary Elections
By Ammu Joseph The headline looks encouraging: Consistent increase in women candidates in LS polls since 1957. But it is misleading, as the very first paragraph clarifies: the great increase reported is from three per cent in 1957 to nine per cent in 2019....
by NWMI | May 20, 2019 | 2019 Parliamentary Elections
By Editors Amnesty India has initiated a crowd-sourced study on the abuse faced by Indian women politicians on Twitter, saying that online trolling aimed at threatening and silencing them must be considered a human rights violation. A 2018 study covering 778 women...
by NWMI | May 20, 2019 | 2019 Parliamentary Elections
By Editors Senior journalist Sheela Bhatt, who now anchors the weekly show, ‘No Holds Barred’ on NewsX, in conversation with Vandita Mishra (National Opinion Editor, Indian Express), Nistula Hebbar (Political Editor, The Hindu) and Radhika Ramseshan...
by NWMI | May 18, 2019 | 2019 Parliamentary Elections
By Nisha Susan In an interview many years ago, Anoop Kumar, writer and founder of Nalanda Academy said this to me: when people ask me why I vote for Mayawati I always say, ‘because I can.’ It took me a while to understand the brilliance of his phrase (which for the...
