Tag: Dowry
Fighting the Dowry System | Fixing India
This week Fixing India is dismantling the nonsensical economics of dowry system.
Uttar Pradesh: Wife Abused for Dowry and Forced into Prostitution by Husband
Uttar Pradesh woman demands justice after her husband domestically abused her for dowry and forced her into prostitution.
Community Weddings: The Solution to Dowry and Child Marriage?
In Rajasthan, as community weddings are celebrated as philanthropic initiatives, it is time to look deeper into the politics of caste and patriarchy.
We Couldn't Have Done It Without You: Our Keys Stats & Numbers as on 11th...
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I am Nirbhaya
A year ago tens of thousands came out in protest on the streets in India. Angry, hurt and exhausted that it had happened again, another girl had lost her life to a sexual assault of the most brutal kind. The collective Indian memory remembers her as Nirbhaya, the fearless one—perhaps...
Woman thrashed and abandoned for not paying dowry
The Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act was passed in 2005 to ensure the safety of women against domestic violence. However, a decade later, women like Mamta, from Uttar Pradesh, remain without justice. Hailing from Baritola village of Ambedkar Nagar in UP, Mamta has been a victim of domestic...
Surviving Domestic Violence
“The first year of my marriage was happy… For the next eight years, grave acts of violence were committed against me by my husband and in laws”, says Shivba Manohar who has, with her two children, left that hellish nightmare behind. Community Correspondent Shanti Yevtikar brings you her story from...