MJ Akbar must step down and submit to investigation of sexual harassment charges
The Network of Women in Media, India, along with the Foundation for Media Professionals and BrihanMumbai Union of Journalists, stands in solidarity with Priya Ramani and others who have accused former editor and current Union Minister of State MJ Akbar of sexual misconduct, and condemn what we see as a concerted effort to throttle an equal rights movement by using the threat of defamation suits to intimidate women who have gathered the courage to speak up.
We express our deep dismay at the allegations of sexual harassment, including assault, levelled by several journalists against Mr Akbar who continues to hold office in the Central Government despite these allegations.
Nowhera Shaikh – Women’s rights in Islam, and also Sania
By Jyoti Punwani She disagreed with the influential Deoband seminary over its fatwa on Imrana. Sania Mirza was chief guest at the annual day of her girls’ madrasa. Nowhera Shaikh, the mystery woman whose All India Mahila Empowerment Party (AIMEP) contested all 224...
Where are transgender persons in the Karnataka Assembly elections?
By Pushpa Achanta In April 2014, in the National Legal Services Authority (NALSA) versus of Union of India case, the verdict from the Supreme Court of India recognised transgender persons and allowed them to choose their gender. This reporter had accompanied the then...