Denied a chair, Dalit women confront discrimination on Indian village councils

By Anuradha Nagaraj CHENNAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Priya Periyasamy was elected to lead her village council in...

Kerala woman who worked as part-time sweeper at panchayat office is...

A Anandavalli was elected on a Communist Party of India (Marxist) ticket in the recently concluded local body election and elevated to...

Nuns amplify rights of domestic workers in Bihar

By G. Leema Rose  Patna: Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (ICM) began working with the domestic...

Four men charged with rape and murder of Dalit woman in...

By Hannah Ellis-Petersen South Asia correspondent Case prompts nationwide protests and further highlights country’s endemic problem of sexual violence

‘Annihilation of caste’ and ‘annihilation of patriarchy’ must go hand-in-hand

Sowjanya Tamalapakula, Hyderabad. Considering women as category “internal” to a community is not based on Ambedkarite politics but the...

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