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Delhi Metro: Free rides for women only the starting point, say activists

23-06-2019 |  | The Hindu

Women seen travelling in a metro in New Delhi.  

Majority of them welcome the Delhi government’s proposed policy but want more initiatives to ensure women safety and empowerment

Audit reveals public places unsafe for women

01-08-2015 | Jatin Anand | The Hindu

Audit based on perception of safety proves many prominent areas of Delhi unsafe due to the absence of other women, lack of lighting and last-mile connectivity when using public transport among other reasons.

 

Security issues for girls in DU

02-08-2015 | Kritika Sharma Sebastian | The Hindu

Flash mob cum protest held to convey anguish about eve teasing cases and draw attention to the fact that DU campus isn’t safe for female students. Safety audit conducted by Jagori also proves the lack of security felt by girls.

 

Launch of socially conscious movie, ‘Kajarya’

04-11-2015 | Atif Khan | The Hindu

Released at Jantar Mantar, upcoming thriller,‘Kajarya’ is a unique blend of entertainment and social commitment that explores the lives of two women, dealing with the the rural-urban divide, and female infanticide. 

Rural women stir up revolution in Balaghat

28-02-2012 | Pamela Philipose | The Hindu

They came like a river down the road - women holding banners, and marching in line. The morning air reverberated with a slogan from Mumbai in the 1980s: ‘Hum bharat ki nari hain / Phool nahi, chingari hain (We are women of India /Not flowers, but flames)'. Pamela Philipose covers the annual meeting of the Nari Shakti Mahila Sangh in Balaghat, Jharkhand.

 

Wheels of freedom

22-03-2014 | Anasuya Basu | The Hindu

About 50 young women from Madanpur Khadar joined others on a bicycle ride on 9th March, 2014 to mark International Women's Day. The event was organized by Spin Life, a Gurgaon-based organisation that specialises in conducting bicycle rides and training people in spinning, who joined hands with the NGO Jagori, to break barriers and encourage women to cycle in the city.

NGO survey data differ from official data on crime against women

09-09-2013 | Rukmini S | The Hindu

NCRB's "Crime in India" publication is the only official source that gives data about crimes in India.  According to this data, India had 24,923 rape cases in 2012, 45,351 cases of molestation and 9,173 cases of verbal harassment of women.  Surveys of Institute of Human Development and Jagori on Crime Against Women have brought out different and alarming figures.

“One Billion Rising” campaign launched in Rajasthan

02-11-2012 |  | The Hindu

“It is going to be one of the biggest cultural tsunamis against violence,” said Kamla Bhasin as she launched the One Billion Rising campaign in Jaipur, Rajasthan. Triggered by a United Nations projection that one in three women in the world is beaten or raped during her lifetime, the campaign has outreach in 160 countries worldwide and 17 states in India, to date.

Sending out an SOS

25-06-2013 | Pamela Phillipose | The Hindu

Sonu Das was frantic. She had just stabbed someone.

Suresh Grover, Director, The Monitoring Group (TMG), a leading anti-racist UK-based charity that promotes civil rights and runs a phone-in helpline for those under attack, recalls, “For us as a helpline service in the Das case, our emergency service role ended when the police arrived. But in the long term this woman needed support.”

L-G urged to take stringent measures for women’s safety

14-08-2013 | Special Correspondent | The Hindu

Lieutenant-Governor Najeeb Jung on Tuesday reviewed the “security and safety” measures for women in the Capital during a meeting with women NGOs.

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