Gearing up for 16 Days of Activism!
This year, Breakthrough will be participating in the global 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence campaign sponsored by the Center for Women’s Global Leadership. 16DOA runs from November 25th to December 10th and aims to raise awareness about gender-based violence as a human rights issue. This year’s theme was recently announced: From Peace in [...]
We exist. Therefore, we share.
This week was Social Media Day, celebrating the evolution of internet most significantly brought about by the revolutionary changes that social media has made in our personal and professional lives. We asked our fans on Facebook & Twitter to share stories of how social media has made a difference in their lives and in particular [...]
mother beyond gender…
This man defines the meaning of motherhood beyond genderhood in this heartfelt poem.
What it means to 'Be A Man'
National Award winning social activist, Harish Sadani, talks about the journey from his locality to MAVA in engaging and involving men and boys in the movement for gender rights and equality.
Men & Emotions
What I am about to say might infuriate the feminists here. But be patient and stay with me awhile. Sympathy is easy. Empathy is hard. Harder it is to empathise with someone who has suffered from things too atrocious for one’s imagination. Harder still is to empathise with the perpetrator. And it is this that [...]
"But he didn't abuse you physically…or sexually?"
#16DOT blogger, Neha Sharma, writes about her experience of emotional abuse in a relationship and the sympathy she received from no one (forget empathy) only because he didn’t lay a single hand on her.
In Search Of Rays of Hope for Victims of Violence
Domestic abuse is often treated as family skirmish, and its victims are often advised not to seek help outside family. That’s the message I got when I started poking around in search of assistance that is offered to victims of abuse. From doctors to police personnel, anyone in a position to help a domestic violence [...]
Women in Red Corridors
Mahima Singh retraces the roots of her understanding of violence and expresses how the opportunities for women are dismal, perceivably non-existent, in the red corridor regions of the country.
For the women, the valley is no paradise!
Rhythma Kaul recounts a few memory flashes from her childhood spent in the Kashmir valley.
Reflection on the Montreal Massacre
December 6, 1989. Marc Lepine arrives at the Universite de Montreal with a semi-automatic rifle and a hunting knife. He kills fourteen women. He is fighting feminism. Lepine entered an engineering classroom and ordered the men and women to separate onto opposite sides of the room. He ordered the men to leave and asked the women if they [...]
