Topic: Women's rights

BMMA also suggests that the practice be made a bailable offence and jail term be cut to 1 year from the 3 year as proposed in triple talaq bill.

In a country, which adamantly refuses to recognise “marital rape”, we are still far away from these complicated conversations about sex, coercion, entitlement and misogyny in the bedroom.

The question of sexual consent and women’s agency have resurfaced after a woman anonymously called out Aziz Ansari’s sexually aggressive behavior during a date. ThePrint asks experts to weigh in.

The deeply gendered and political act of rescuing women has been on full display ever since the government launched its campaign to save India’s Muslim women from the terrible practice of triple talaq.

Official data says the city in Tamil Nadu didn't have a single case of rape in all of 2016. That may be too good to be true. 

Triple Talaq became a hot issue because Muslim women now refuse to be treated like dumb chattel; BJP has astutely responded to that upsurge, instead of crushing it.

Effective empowerment of women can be achieved through better implementation of law, 33 percent reservation for women, improved gender ratio in work and education space.

Senior bureaucrat Aruna Sharma has lashed out at what she calls the “narrow approach in the name of women’s rights”. She believes this has led to a rampant misuse of law by women, asserting that such “activism” is resulting in men losing faith in the judiciary and the institution of marriage.

No matter how good the law is, it is doomed to remain on paper if unaccompanied by public education, behavioural change and enforement of rule of law.

The HRW report only goes to show how structures of “due process” often don’t work, especially for women at the intersections of multiple marginalisations.