By Lisa Lunga, National Youth Co-ordinator Women’s Comfort Corner Foundation conducted a Monitoring and Mentoring session on 02nd of January 2019 – 03rd of January, 2019
#MeToo THEN WHAT? When the original #MeToo wave began in the US, though there was support, there was for the most part silence in India.
India’s LGBT community is celebrating an historic victory. On September 6 The Country’s Supreme Court struck down a colonial-era law criminalizing same-sex conduct as unconstitutional.
Through the story, Singh highlights the problems little girls from the cities face when the loos they are presented with are stinky and wet
In 2018 the International Alliance of Women framed areas of concern for women across the globe. A focus has been put on the challenges of Indigenous women in Canada and their struggle with violence directed toward them.
According to the World Health Organization, mental, neurological, and substance use disorders are common in all regions of the world, affecting every community and age
The men in patriarchal Pakistan called her shameless, and her brother, a day after she told the media that she feared for her life, finally strangled her in what he called an honour killing,.
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