by NWMI | Feb 22, 2018 | 2018 Assembly Elections
By North East Network (NEN) Nagaland Introduction North East Network (NEN) is a women’s rights organization, working in the states of Assam, Meghalaya and Nagaland. Since 1995, NEN has been working on issues of Gender-based Discrimination and Violence against Women...
by NWMI | Feb 21, 2018 | 2018 Assembly Elections
By Aheli Moitra In Nagaland’s political scape, women have become buzz words and stepping stones to political power. Hypocrisy, insensitivity and ignorance define political manifestos and speeches around gender questions. But as long as patriarchy defines these...
by NWMI | Feb 19, 2018 | 2018 Assembly Elections
By Kalpana Sharma In this report on the ongoing Assembly elections in Nagaland, Dipankar Ghose has gone beyond just reporting that five women are standing. Apart from profiling the independent candidate, he has also interviewed a women’s rights activist on the...
by NWMI | Feb 19, 2018 | 2018 Assembly Elections
By Anjuman Ara Begum What explains why matrilineal Meghalaya goes to the polls with so few women candidates, as described by Patricia Mukhim in this article? Matrilineal societies like the one in Meghalaya were probably aimed to make women the custodians of property...
by NWMI | Feb 19, 2018 | 2018 Assembly Elections
By Laxmi Murthy As Tripura went to the polls on February 18, registering a voter turnout of about 78%, stock images of the female electorate were churned out. Exotic photographs of women from the Reang tribe showing their finger with indelible ink after casting their...
