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Untouchability Captured on Camera, Rajasthan

 
/ January 5, 2011

Dalit women are made to remove their footwear as they pass by upper caste houses.

Women Master Art Of Farming

 
/ January 4, 2011

Women break into male domain of agriculture and set up a farming cooperative in Bihar.

Women Stop Liquor Menace

 
/ December 30, 2010

Women in Chhattisgarh, India successfully get the local liquor brewery shut down after a four day protest.

Devadasi: A Life Without Education

 
/ December 28, 2010

The outlawed tradition of ‘devdasi’ which sanctions religious prostitution continues in rural Maharashtra.

Tamil’s Transgender Community

 
/ December 27, 2010

Indian society has a 4000-year history of pushing its male to female transgender community into becoming Hijra.

Businesswomen Stop Rural Migration

 
/ December 22, 2010

A women’s self-help group in India’s Chhattisgarh stop migration by making ready-to-eat meal powder.

Defenceless Woman Branded ‘Witch’

 
/ December 21, 2010

Despite a law in place, poor women from marginalised communities in Jharkhand continue to be branded as ‘witches’ and tortured.

Nokma: The Powerless Woman Leader

 
/ December 20, 2010

Tribal women in India’s Meghalaya become leaders, but are dominated by male relatives.