Women

AIPWA Observed Foundation Day

On 12 February 2018, All India Progressive Women’s Association observed its 24th foundation day in...

Protest against rape and murder of Dalit girl

A 14 year old school girl was brutally raped and murdered in Vijayapura in Karnataka. The girl...

10th West Bengal State Conference of All India Progressive Women’s Association

The 10th West Bengal APIWA state conference was concluded on 19th of November 2017 at Jogesh...

AIPWA Demands Women’s Reservation Bill to Be Passed in Winter Session

AIPWA organized protests demanding that the bill for 33% reservation for women be passed in the...

Massive Assertion of Working Class in Front of Parliament

3-day Mahapadav Against Anti-Worker Policies Responding to a call by the Joint Platform of Central...

(Translation of the song composed and sung by mid-day meal workers from East Champaran – Comrades Kumanti Devi, Shahida Khatoon and Sahana Khatoon – at the Workers’ Mahapadav (Dharna) at Parliament Street, 11...

Bengaluru Municipality Contract Sanitation Workers Strike on Women’s Day

The official Government ‘celebrations’ of International Women’s Day came a cropper in Bengaluru thanks to a powerful strike by the city Municipal Corporation’s contract sanitation workers (97% of whom are Dalit women). The BBMP...

IWD 2017 Demonstrations

Pricol workers in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu observed IWD 2017 as an occasion to reaffirm ten years of their struggle. On this occasion, AIPWA Secretary Kavita Krishnan felicitated six of the recently-acquitted Pricol workers, who...

Ranchi District Conference of AIPWA

The 5th AIPWA Ranchi district conference was held on 12 February 2017 at the Com. Srilata Swaminathan auditorium in Com. Mahendra Singh Bhawan, Ranchi with a resolution of struggle against patriarchal society and Sanghi ideology...

Murder of Dika in Bihar: Killing Dalit Dreams of Education and Dignity

(Slightly expanded version of a piece in Wire.in) Kusmi Devi is an agricultural labourer from Bihar’s most oppressed Mahadalit Musahar community. She sent her daughter Dika to school, determined that Dika must not slave in the...

7th AIPWA National Conference in Patna

The 7th AIPWA National Conference was held in Patna on 13-14 November 2016, at the Bharatiya Nritya Kala Mandir. The Conference called for women’s resistance to patriarchy and the growing fascist threat and intensified struggles...

Letter To Law Commission Regarding Personal Law Reform

[The Law Commission has sought responses on a flawed and biased questionnaire on personal law reform. Several organizations and activists – including AIPWA – have sent a collective response (below) to the Law Commission.] To, Dr...