The first all-women’s political party in India has formed after 100 women joined. A first order of business is to boost female representation in parliament from 8 to 50 percent. Seventh in a series on the changing role of women in India.
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“Legally the police are under no obligation to arrest or charge the perpetrators for less serious assaults,” Basisy, from the Ministry for Women’s Affairs, told IRIN

“Honour killings”

“Furthermore, over the last three to four decades fewer than 12 men have been jailed for `honour killings’. Our ministry has proposed changes to the penal code on

Geçən ay İttilaat məmurlarinin saldirisi sonucu özün məhkəməyə tanitan Azərbaycanli qadin fəal, xanım Ğulami 3 milion (Tümən- yaxlaşiq 3300 dollar) vəsiqə qoyaraq hələlək özgür buraxilıb.

At the end, I would like to remind that, at present, there are many political and human rights activists from Azarbayjan city’s spending their time in the Islamic Republic prisons and no news has been reported about these people in print or non print farsi language media including online.