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Working Towards Solutions
Forum for Women's Rights and Democratic Reforms
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Gender Justice |
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| Claiming Land Rights for Women |
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| Lessons Learnt from two Different Endeavours to Help Women Claim Share of Family Land |
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A chance encounter with a 55-year-old Ho tribal woman in Lonjo
village, Jharkhand, was a life transforming experience for me. In 1981,
Jharkhand, then part of Bihar, was witnessing a tribal movement to reclaim forest
rights. A reign of terror was unleashed with mass arrests and rapes of women by
the police and pa... |
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| Politics Triumphs over Justice |
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| Supreme Court Judgement on Tribal Women's Land Rights |
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We reproduce below the text of the Supreme Court judgement in a case filed in August 1982 by Madhu Kishwar and Ho tribal woman Maki Bui challenging the denial of land rights to tribal women. Click here for judgement
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| Public Interest Litigation |
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| One Step Forward, Two Steps Backwards |
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With the introduction of the concept of Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in the late 1970s direct access for citizens was provided to the High Courts as well as the Supreme Court. Progressive judges such as Justice P.N.Bhagwati began to actively encourage social and political activists to bring instances of injustice... |
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| Toiling Without Rights |
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| Ho Women of Singhbhum : Part III |
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| While the role of unequal land rights in determining the status of different caste and class groups in India has been the subject of much debate, their impact on women's status has generally escaped attention. In fact the patriarchal bias of the social and legal system gives rise to the assumption that once the men of ... |
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| Toiling Without Rights |
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| Ho Women of Singhbhum : Part II |
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| While the role of unequal land rights in determining the status of different caste and class groups in India has been the subject of much debate, their impact on women's status has generally escaped attention. In fact the patriarchal bias of the social and legal system gives rise to the assumption that once the men of ... |
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| Toiling without Rights |
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| Ho Women of Singhbhum : Part I |
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While the role of unequal land rights in determining the status of different caste and class groups in India has been the subject of much debate, their impact on women's status has generally escaped attention. In fact the patriarchal bias of the social and legal system gives rise to the assumption that once the men o... |
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| Challenging The Denial Of Land Rights To Women |
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We reproduce here a letter written by Madhu Kishwar to Justice Bhagwati, chairman of the committee for the implementation of legal aid. It was admitted into the supreme court as a writ petition on August 20, 1982. It was followed by a formal writ petition jointly filed by Maki Bui, her daughter Sonamuni, and Madhu Ki... |
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| Out of the Zenana Dabba |
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| Strategies for Enhancing Women’s Political Representation |
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THE Prime Minister himself could not make it that day. At a conference organised by the National Commission for Women in the last week of July, a few of us had been asked by the Commission to pose questions to the Prime Minister on his views regarding 33 percent reservation for women in Parliament and state assembli... |
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