Rajkummar Rao Becomes Part Of Dhakal Do, An Initiative To End Violence On Streets
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Breakthrough India, an organization seeking to make violence and discrimination against women and girls unacceptable, today announced the launch of its ‘Dakhal Do’ campaign. Dakhal Do, meaning ‘intervene’ is a multi-year campaign on bystander intervention designed to inspire young people between the ages of 19-25 to intervene and call out acts of violence against women and girls both in public and private spaces. Breakthrough India has joined hands with popular Bollywood actor Rajkummar Rao to take the campaign to the masses.
The campaign seeks to inspire young people to intervene when they witness acts of violence against women and girls, either in their own lives or in public places. The idea is to reinforce and highlight the role of a bystander in creating safe spaces for women and girls in India. The campaign will be an integral part of Breakthrough India ongoing programmes i
29 December 2020 -
The recently released partial data from the fifth National Family Health Survey (NFHS 5) has revealed two counts on which the country has regressed. Child nutrition has become worse in the last five years, wiping off our gains of the previous 20 years, and in five states, over 30 per cent of women aged 18-49 years have experienced spousal violence.
The percentage of stunted, wasted and underweight children has grown in the majority of states. Rates of stunting have risen in rich states such as Kerala, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa and Himachal Pradesh, all of which had lowered their rates of stunting in the previous two decades. In case of spousal violence, Karnataka is the most concerning case; spousal violence in the state has doubled to 44.4 per cent, up from 20.9 per cent in NFHS 4 (2015-16). The other states where spousal violence continues to hover above 30 per cent are Assam, Andhra Pradesh, Telengana, Bihar and Mizoram.
If initial trends indicated by data from the first phase of the survey hold for subsequent phases, many gains made in the recent past with regard to women and children’s health and wellbeing could be reversed, as we
reported on December 13.
More women report having worked
While National Family Health Survey reports a marginal increase in the percentage of women who said they had worked for cash, it does not factor in the effect of the pandemic on India’s already low female labour force participation of 24%, as recorded in the
Employment data released by the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy for November 2020
A virtual forum for youth kickstarts conversations on gender equity
DURGA India, a Bangalore-based organisation, wants the youth to be able to have frank conversations around political representation, how to combat sexual harassment, activism, how to tackle safety as a community problem. Updated: December 16, 2020 9:48:03 pm
Why should we engage with the concept of Gender Equity? To live our authentic lives freely. (Express Illustration: Rhea Gupta)
“There has been a women’s movement for everything, except in politics. A citizen’s movement is needed. The people who are already in power will not change the status quo,” says Tara Krishnaswamy, a political activist, as she discusses the under-representation of women in public spaces. Clap emojis fill up the computer screen, and messages in the chat box fly by as India’s youth engages with one out of many hard-hitting truths at DURGA India’s NGAGE forum.
More than a quarter of the women surveyed in seven states said they had experienced domestic violence, data released in the first phase of the latest National Family Health Survey (NFHS) indicate. Nine states reported an increase in the number of women who said they had faced sexual violence as children, and eight states reported a decline in their sex ratios. A marginally higher share of women said they had worked in the last year and were paid in cash and not in kind but the numbers could be misleading, experts say. The National Family Health Survey is a nationally representative household survey that covers over 400,000 households, asking questions around marriage, fertility, vaccinations and health status, among others. This edition of the survey pre-dates the COVID-19 pandemic that has seen a disproportionate impact on women in terms of gender-based violence as well as employment.