My Female Colleagues Told Me Not To Talk About The Abuse. I Did It Anyway.
By: Michele Wheldon, Assistant professor of journalism, Northwestern University “You will have ‘victim’ on your name tag for the rest of your life.” She said it crisply, curtly. I imagine her intent was to perhaps save me from what she perceived as a career-ending move. She and I were friends from college, and I respected her [...]
Women: the weaker sex, as they call it!
Here’s another day in office. After checking my Outlook mails, I opened the Times of India site, as I always did. We, the slaves of technology, hardly get time to grab a newspaper and even skim through it. So we surrender ourselves to the internet, for a daily update on what’s happening around the world. [...]
“The Weather Couldn’t Bring Down the Spirits against Domestic Violence”
Amrita travelled with the video van as a Breakthrough volunteer during the video van movement in New Delhi. In this blog, she shares her experience with how the van is received by women in college and general public in other parts of Delhi.
Bell Bajao! Video Van Route Map
Breakthrough will launch the Bell Bajao! video van on the 21st of February! Check out all the pit stops in and around Delhi and catch our games and quiz sessions, street theatre, puppet theatre, rock band performance & more fun!
Employers Tolerate Sexual Harassment
Why has sexual harassment reached epidemic proportions at the workplace?
Breakthrough Advocacy Meet in Lucknow
On 7th Oct 2010, in collaboration with Jagori, Breakthrough organized a one day state level advocacy meeting in Lucknow with local NGO’s and give their inputs for the effective implementation of the PWDVA law in Uttar Pradesh and help us in creating an equitable world where women have the right to live a violence free life.
Domestic Violence Act-Please Redefine
The confusion about the DV Act is about to be settled. A Petition has already been filed in Delhi High Court.
CRIME: BEARING A GIRL CHILD, VERDICT: UNPARDONABLE OFFENSE.
Dr. Mitu Khurana refused to abort her twin daughters when she was falsely tricked into a sex determination test by Dr.Kamal Khurana, her husband and also a doctor himself. Mitu’s story of struggle began here. Her staunch refusal to abort her children led her husband to eventually throw her out of their house. At other [...]
Photography contest nominee – Ritumbra Manuvi
This photograph is submitted by Ritumbra Manuvi. This is Ritumbra’s image of freedom and equality of women. In the photo – The women who witnessed the miseries inflicted on their Tibetan men, find their way out in Dickey Larso Tibetan Settlement at Kushinagra District of Bangalore 5 hours away from Bangalore. You can also send [...]
And Now, You May Kick the Bride
Most of us skim over an occasional report in a newspaper or hear it mentioned once in a while on TV, but we don’t know what really goes on in dowry-related cases. Once in a blue moon, a dowry case is highlighted by the media but what with the skin-deep journalism we are accustommed to, [...]
