Women need to turn obstacles into opportunities: AIDWA

All India Democratic Women?s Association (AIDWA) has strongly opposed the direct cash transfer (DCT) scheme saying it was aimed at reducing subsidies. The scheme is only aimed at cutting the subsidies provided in different commodities gradually,”” AIDWA ...

, a delegation of the All India Democratic Womens Association (AIDWA) visited the family of the acid attack victim Priti Rathi in Narela, Delhi According to a press statement issued on the day by AIDWA general secretary Sudha Sundararaman and its ...

India News: As many as 35 protesters, including women, felt uneasiness, some of them fainted, after the police used teargas shells. Three police vehicles were also damaged by the protesters. Around 700 activists of the Left youth organisations, ...

In Indian culture women are given an eminent status, in every phase and every role in life from mother to sister to wife or to daughter. This traces back from mythological times from which the power of women is symbolized by the goddess Laxmi for ...

Remembering how she "saw the struggle for women's rights in India as a political one aimed at re-aligning equations of power, status and inequalities", students, friends and colleagues of academician and women's rights activist Vina Mazumdar, who ...

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In this Sunday's Karnataka assembly election, according to the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR), the six major parties have fielded 220 candidates with criminal charges against them. The biggest culprit is the Congress 25% of its candidates ...

)New parliamentary questions on women, Dalits and human rights in India Written questions of the member Voordewind (ChristianUnion) to the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade & Development Co-operation about sexual violence against women ...

The latest insanity from the genetic engineers is to push GMO bananas on India for reducing iron deficiency in Indian women. Nature has given us a cornucopia of biodiversity, rich in nutrients. Malnutrition and nutrient deficiency results from ...