Oct. 10, 2024
They Called Us Witches
In the midst of The Enlightenment, when men in the West hailed reason and rationalism, and aspired towards lofty ideals such as liberty, equality and religious tolerance - another darker social phenomenon was taking place. O…
June 30, 2024
Mapping The Murder Of Women
The prevalence of murder of women by men, across the world, is beyond dispute. The phenomenon - the murder of women because they are women - has become such a fixture of human life that it has acquired a name: femicide, or f…
April 28, 2024
A Worldwide Gauntlet
No status puts a woman at greater vulnerability than that of being a migrant or refugee.
Anna Zobnina is a Strategy and Executive Director at European Network of Migrant Women, and she knows first-hand the realities and co…
Jan. 7, 2024
What On Earth Is Peace?
In her recent book Femicide in War and Peace, Israeli anthropologist and femicide expert Shalva Weil says that “the dividing line between femicide in wartime and peacetime is very thin.” Trigger warning: that fact is the sub…
Sept. 13, 2023
No Country For Women
For most of us who end up in feminism, who end up actively fighting for women’s rights - the consciousness that brought us here - came at a steep price.
Some of us got shocked into it, some of us went through a series of pa…
May 9, 2023
Who To Believe!
Is our justice system in the business of determining what is true or false? Do our courts really determine who is guilty or innocent? Does our criminal justice system punish those who violate, and protect and restore the rig…