![Who Cares for Women’s Safety? [April 7, 2014, CNN-IBN, ‘Open Mike’]](https://nwmindia.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/category-th-assembly-2014.png)
by NWMI | Apr 12, 2014 | 2014 Parliamentary Elections
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/open-mike-does-any-political-party-really-care-for-the-safety-of-women/463346-81.html Following the uproar over what is referred to as the “Delhi gang-rape”, women’s safety has been much discussed in the public sphere. Watch a bunch of...
by NWMI | Apr 11, 2014 | 2014 Parliamentary Elections
This article (6 April 2014), attributed to AFP, on India Times, about Jayalalitha, Mamata Banerjee and Mayawati, is largely dismissive of the three politicians. It opens with exaggeratedly distorted (graphic) caricatures of the women. The headline – ‘Lok Sabha...
by NWMI | Apr 11, 2014 | 2014 Parliamentary Elections
At a Moradabad election rally (April 10), Samajwadi party leader Mulayam Singh opposed the new rape law saying that since rape was a “mistake” made by boys, it didn’t deserve the death penalty. Instead, his party will attempt to reverse the new law and take legal...
by NWMI | Apr 9, 2014 | 2014 Parliamentary Elections
The first day of the ongoing, prolonged general elections dominated by personalities and characterised by personalised invectives brought some relief in the form of a quiet, meaningful gender-focussed report from Bhiwani (Haryana) by Mayank Aggarwal. The story,...
by NWMI | Apr 5, 2014 | Initiatives, Statements
In an article by Seema Mustafa in The Statesman on 4 April 2014, headlined “When feminists brook no opposition,” in which she responds to criticism of her recent article in The Citizen based on the CCTV footage in the sexual assault and rape case involving Tarun...
