One Billion Rising is the biggest mass action to end violence against women (cisgender, transgender, and those who hold fluid identities that are subject to gender-based violence) in human history. The campaign, which launched on Valentine’s Day 2012, began as a call to action based on the staggering statistic that 1 in 3 women on…
Tribal identity globally has always been defined by one primary natural resource- Land. It comes as no surprise then, that the majorly tribal inhabitants of North East India derive all their social, cultural, political and economic sustenance from their land. It ‘exemplifies and boasts unique and rich diversity in land governance regimes which are witnessing…
Women play an important role in various income-generating activities towards improvement of their family incomes and livelihoods. One popular platform for women to do so is self-help groups (SHGs). SHGs are growing widely in different corners of rural Assam creating opportunities for women to be empowered through entrepreneurial activities, farming, livestock rearing, etc. which effect increase…
Martin Luther Christian University ‘For gender-based violence to stop, men must be made active agents of the change that concerns them.’ In the past two decades, women have been able to bring two legislations on their protection against physical violence in the home space and sexual violence at the workspace. Despite this, violent crimes against…
Funded by Brot fur die Welt (BfdW) and MISEREOR Germany, the project has been initiated in the states of Assam, Meghalaya and Nagaland since April 2019 and is to be fully implemented by 31st March 2022. The objective of the project is that women’s agency and community activism are sustained towards securing economic, cultural, political, ecological rights and entitlements. In…