Care Without Compensation: How ASHA Workers in India Struggle for Dignity and Justice Published: 31 January 2025 Background ASHA workers are the backbone of India's healthcare, yet they fight for recognition and fair pay. These women are now trying to transform the narrative around labor and dignity in the healthcare system. By Damayanti Saha
Our bodies, our movements Published: 29 December 2021 Article This short piece focuses on sets of people in India whose bodies and desires are viewed as “deviant” – sexual or gender minorities (LGBTIAQ). Beginning with an overview of the ways people from these communities are viewed, the paper sketches some of the terrain covered by this young and vibrant movement and then touches upon some of the fault lines within the movement before concluding.
"One Cube" Three, yet one! Published: 9 November 2016 "One Cube" Three, yet one! - is a documentary film by Pramod Dev. Depicting three women who work in export-oriented sectors of India's economy. By Shalini Yog Shah
LGBT Taxi service launched in Mumbai Published: 27 January 2016 LGBT Taxi service is the first of its kind in India and is aimed at promoting LGBT-Rights across the country.
Video: Urvashi Butalia on Women's Rights in India Published: 22 May 2015 Urvashi Butalia on Women's Rights in India - Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Watch on YouTube This external content requires your consent. Please note our privacy policy. In this interview Butalia speaks about womens rights, the anti-rape movement and about the new elected Prime Minister.
“India is still confronted with the old issues, as well as the new ones” Published: 19 May 2015 Ranjana Kumari, Director of the Centre for Social Research in New Delhi, is a veteran Indian feminist who has been following the International Women’s Conferences since Nairobi in 1985. She just returned from the March 2015 meeting in New York. We talked with her about women’s rights and gender equity in India. By Ranjana Kumari and Shalini Yog Shah
Brides for India’s North Published: 18 February 2015 Declining sex ratios due to decades of discrimination against women in certain parts of India have left many men unmarried. An interview about cross-regional marriage migration with Ravinder Kaur. By Caroline Bertram
Cross-Border Observations on Rape in India and South Africa Published: 6 October 2014 In early 2013, the cases of two young women, brutally gang-raped and murdered in different parts of the world received uncharacteristic national and international attention. One was Jyoti Singh, a 23-year-old from India; and the other was 17-year-old Anene Booysen in South Africa. By Claudia Lopes
