We oppose dilution of Section 498A”, “Violence is not a trivial issue” were slogans heard loud and clear at the Supreme Court of India on the morning of 31st July, 2017. A group of women’s organisations gathered to register their protest against the regressive judgment of Rajesh Sharma & Ors. v. State of UP and Anr. passed by Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel and Uday Lalit on 27th July, 2017, diluting the provisions given under section 498A of the Indian Penal Code. The judgment relied upon a baseless assumption that a large number of cases filed under this Section are false and frivolous.
OUR DEMANDS Demands placed before the Central Government for urgent consideration and redressal - - Set up a committee to study gendered impacts of the pandemic and to understand the severity of it…
AIDWA demands scrapping of amendment to essential commodities act and two ordinances facilitating the corporatisation of Agriculture.
As per the call of the AIDWA secretariat the All India Protest Day was organised in more than 253 districts in 21 states on June 1 – Demanding Food and Work and Stop to Violence
AIDWA delegation met Aishe Ghosh and other injured students and expressed full support to their struggle against the fee hike and also strongly condemned the cowardly attack by the ABVP-BJP-RSS goons…
AIDWA leaders Subhashini Ali, Sehba Farooqi and Mariam Dhawale participated in the one month long dharna at Shaheen Bagh and expressed solidarity with the women protesting against NRC-CAA imposed by…
