Year: 2018
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Prevention of Animal Cruelty: Giving a Voice to the Voiceless
By Lakshmi Kailasan, Vivekananda Institute of Professional Studies, New Delhi. Prevention of animal cruelty is not merely about debating over whether one is a vegetarian or a non-vegetarian and neither is it about determining an animal’s right on the basis of its religious relevance. In the wake of the inhumane acts committed against these creatures,…
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Medical Termination of Pregnancy: A Woman’s Body but a Woman’s Choice?
By Lakshmi Kailasan, Vivekananda Institute of Professional Studies, New Delhi. Medical termination of pregnancy which is more commonly addressed as abortion, may be defined in medical terms as the premature exit of the products from the uterus. To explain it in simple terms, it is the removal of an unwanted foetus. Going back in time…
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Right to Menstrual Health Project: Learnings at a Teach For India Classroom
As part of our Right to Menstrual Health Project, we recently visited a TFI school in New Delhi’s Sangam Vihar area. Based on our conversations with the VII grade girls of the said Government Senior Secondary School, we realised that there exists a major gap in the knowledge dissemination process vis-a-vis the requisite learning standards…
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Civic Architects: Right to Menstrual Health
When interventions and intersections are put under the scanner, potential problems and complexes seem in dire need of far reaching approaches and solutions. Understanding interventions, acknowledging multi-pronged challenges and seeking the mechanism for change at the Civic Architects (Call for Action: Right to Menstrual Health).
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“Period” of Change: Acknowledging the Right to Menstrual Health
By Tanya Chandra, Founder, LexQuest Foundation. It can’t be stressed enough that menstruation is a mere biological phenomenon, so why does it bother a society so much that we need policies for menstruating women? To answer the aforementioned, one has to acknowledge the closely knit cultural and social spaces along with the psycho-social contexts in…
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Bollywood and Religious Sentiments: When a Legal Notice comes knocking
By Adv. Sanyukta Banerjie. Nothing falls apart faster in India than roads during rain and religious sentiments during a movie release. Every other day, the dailies report yet another movie producer, director or even the actor (no seriously) grappling with a legal notice and I shake my head thinking “Ah! Well they are still being…
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Civic Architects: The Policy Workshop (Right to Menstrual Health)
In a democracy, people and their well being is at the core of an exemplary public policy mechanism, which is why proactive mass action can determine the fate of the policies that the State formulates. It is thus crucial that people demand policies on existing realities that deserve carefully crafted policies. We believe that in…
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Civic Architects: Bride Trafficking
A day full of insights, intense discussions and revelations for our participants and us, while we tried to make sense of the gender disparity, gender inequity and commodification of women’s minds and bodies in the society that contribute to the complex landscape of Bride Trafficking in India. Of learnings, solutions and thought provoking debates at…
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Bride Trafficking: A Predicament in Dire Need of a Resolution?
By Ankush Kejriwal, Alliance University, Bengaluru. Here’s a thought-provoking presentation on the topic of Bride Trafficking in India, a troublesome complication prevalent in our society:
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Right to Menstrual Health Project
There is enough literature on how menstruation is a taboo, and how that fact adversely affects women’s and adolescent girls’ health in the country, but what has escaped our attention is how there are no well implemented or exemplary policies in place to address these concerns for effective Menstrual Hygiene Management. We thus launched the…