Ranjana Kumari, convenor of Women Power Connect.

By Ranjit Devraj

NEW DELHI, Mar 8, 2010 (IPS) – With assured backing from India’s main opposition groups, the ruling Congress party hopes to see voted through in the upper house of Parliament Monday a bill reserving 33 percent of seats in national and provincial legislatures for women. Continue Reading

Ammu Joseph. Credit:Ammu Joseph

Ranjit Devraj interviews AMMU JOSEPH, Indian journalist, author and media watcher.

NEW DELHI, Mar 4, 2010 (IPS) – Young Indian women are taking to journalism in droves, but Ammu Joseph, author of several authoritative books on women in media, believes that these numbers do not necessarily translate into gender awareness. Continue Reading

Taina Bien-Aimé, Executive Director of Equality Now, briefs journalists at the UN. Credit: UN Photo/Mark Garten

By Thalif Deen

UNITED NATIONS, Feb 24, 2010 (IPS) – Nearly 62 years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which proclaimed “all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights,” a few of the world’s discriminatory laws against women are being progressively repealed in Asia, Europe, Africa and Latin America.
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By K S Harikrishnan

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, India, Feb 9, 2010 (IPS) – Domestic worker Beena Joy, 35, came back empty-handed after losing her job in recession-hit United Arab Emirates, but soon found that getting laid-off has given her a happier life back home here in this southern Indian city.
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