Becky Blab

Preeti Chauhan goes off about the police harrassment on the Delhi campus (see my post on the incident and protests). It’s not only shameful but just outrageous that these kinds of things are happening right in the heart of the capital of India! Isn’t these the heights of patriarchal audacity that some men can now [...]

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A 60-year old tribal woman was accused by villagers in Bihar to be practicing in witchcraft and beaten to death by them. Apparently her ‘spells’ couldn’t cure their mindsets. A witchcraft practitioner identified her as the one who was responsible for all maladies of the village. A case has been registered against six villagers under [...]

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A post at Feministing highlights the apparently high rate of suicides amongst Asian women. Southall Black Sisters has claimed that domestic violence are forcing more and more Asian women in Britain to commit suicide on railway tracks. “The high instance of Asian women suicides is linked to abusive practices within Asian families. There is a [...]

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Women’s e-news has a piece on Muslim women’s activism in India, particularly surrounding the case of Imrana who had been raped by her father-in-law. The village elders, following Sharia, had ruled that her marriage be dissolved. However, women’s groups such as the All India Muslim Women’s Personal Law Board (see here) took up her cause [...]

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Thanks to Dhaka’s The Daily Star for making World Tourism Day a newsworthy event. The theme is “Tourism opens doors for women,” in recognition of the opportunities tourism creates for women entrepreneurs and workers. Despite the many gains tourism has offered to women, gender stereotyping and sex tourism pose problems. Data suggest that women’s role [...]

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