women rights

Forced into sex work at a young age, Karnataka’s Manjula now works to help hundreds of sex workers get voter IDs, Aadhaar cards, and more. She also helps them fight violence and abuse.

At just 15, Roshni Perween became a mother, facing challenges many of us can’t imagine. But she didn’t let her struggles define her. Today, she has prevented over 60 child marriages.

Jyothi, as a team change leader with Breakthrough India, she is transforming the landscape of her village in Karnal, Haryana, by making sure that every girl in her village gets the chance to study like she did.

'Shareer Ki Jankaari' is a picture book on women's sexuality, designed in 1989 by 75 village women from Rajasthan under the Centre's Women Development Programme.

We all want to fight the good fight. But how do we go about it? Ramesh knows, and he is making sure you know it as well

To truly have gender equality, we all need to band together and fight for what’s right. And these men are doing just that, ensuring that women are not alone in their battle against gender discrimination.

From fighting against domestic abuse, dowry and child marriage to empowering 200 girls, 30-year-old Shahina Javed is breaking societal norms since the last ten years.

Here are the 10 wonder women of India that we would like to honour with The Better India Spotlight, 2018.

As the Supreme Court goes back and forth with its order of whether it should be mandatory for people to stand for the National Anthem played in movie theatres, we wonder if such mandated displays of patriotism compromise our freedom of expression.

Rambai Verma is what a women rights activist in the patriarchal jungles of Uttar Pradesh looks like.