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The Living Dead

Once upon a time widows were burned alive on their dead husband’s funeral pyres. It was believed that if a widow burn herself to death soon after her husband died, her husband would go to heaven and...

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Bride Burning: Men burn their wives to death if wives are unable to give them...

Violence against women can take many forms, from humiliation, harassment, and exploitation to torture and murder. One of the most heinous and shocking forms of violence against women is bride burning....

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Is Female Genital Mutilation only practiced in Africa? No.

There are more than 130 million victims of Female Genital Mutilation in the world! Do we need more? Not only in Africa, Female Genital Mutilation is practiced in Asia too. A large number of Bohra...

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Violence against women by male intimate partners

”Each culture has its sayings and songs about the importance of home, and the comfort and security to be found there. Yet for many women, home is a place of pain and humiliation.” ‘Violence against...

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Homeless Everywhere

“Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of herself/himself and of her/his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social...

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Vagina was literarlly locked up for years.

Today’s News: Man kept wife’s private parts locked for four years. Man arrested for keeping wife’s private parts under lock and key. A man in India kept his wife’s genitals under lock and key. He...

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Girls around the world. Warning: Violant Images

A Kurdish or Iranian girl was stoned to death for falling in love with someone who doesn’t belong to the same sect. A girl was whipped in Sudan for wearing trousers. A 17-year-old girl was flogged in...

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Good questions, good answers.

Gloria Steinem answered to some questions on violence against women. Q: What do you think are the origins of male violence against women? Is it rooted in a patriarchal society? Is it biological?...

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It is not about blaming the victims, it is about blaming the women.

Martin S Pribble, an Australian atheist blogger sent me his article on recent rape cases.I always like when men write for women’s rights and freedom, and protest against oppression of women. Martin...

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Banaz’s story

Let’s listen to Banaz. I do not call it honour killing, I call it misogynistic murder.

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