Sayfty, Swaroop Nagar, Kanpur (2026)

11/12/2025

We are taking a short break and will resume on January 8th, 2026.

wishes everyone happy holidays and a great start to the new year!🎄⭐️

10/12/2025

How to Be Safe Online

The digital world was meant to connect and empower. Yet for many women and girls, it has become a space of harm and fear. Online abuse is real, widespread, and deeply harmful. According to UN Women, between 16-58% of women worldwide report online abuse or harassment.

Online abuse can affect one’s mental health, affect relationships and reputations, and derail careers. As comes to a close, we have compiled a list of ways to spot signs of online abuse and measures to take to ensure your safety online.

What does online abuse look like? Online violence can take many forms, including:
👉🏽Harassment, threats, and repeated unwanted messages
👉🏽Cyberstalking and surveillance through apps or social media
👉🏽Image-based abuse, including sharing private images or videos without consent
👉🏽Deepfakes and manipulated images
👉🏽Doxxing, identity theft, impersonation, and hateful content
👉🏽Controlling behaviour such as limiting access to devices, accounts, or the internet
👉🏽Catfishing or impersonation

Digital abuse often starts small, such as a partner demanding your password or coercing you to share images that make you feel uncomfortable. Here are some warning signs to look out for:
🚩Threats to share private photos if you don’t comply with demands
🚩Controlling behaviour over conversations and contacts you may have
🚩Harassing and abusive comments or DMs that keep coming even after you block someone.
🚩Fake or doctored images of you suddenly appearing online.
🚩Impersonation, exclusion, or smear campaigns in online groups.

So how can you protect yourself online?
🛡️Block and report abusive accounts
🛡️Save evidence such as screenshots, messages, links, and dates
🛡️Strengthen privacy settings and use two-factor authentication
🛡️Check devices for spyware or unfamiliar apps
🛡️Reach out to someone you trust or a support organisation

If you witness online abuse, don’t ignore it. Reporting harmful content and supporting survivors can help stop the cycle. Together, we can make the internet safer for every woman and girl ✨

Source: UN Women
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02/12/2025

📢 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence: It’s Time to ACT — On and Offline

From 25 November to 10 December, people around the world come together to raise their voices against Gender-Based Violence (GBV). This year’s focus for reminds us that violence isn’t only physical, it can happen in our DMs, comments, feeds and every corner of the digital world. There is for online abuse.

🔎 Why this matters: According to the World Health Organisation, nearly 1 in 3 women (about 840 million) globally will experience physical and/or sexual violence by a partner or someone else at some point in their life. In the past 12 months alone, around 316 million women aged 15 or older suffered violence from an intimate partner. Further, according to UN Women, between 16-58% of women and girls face digital violence and about 90-95% of deep fakes circulating are of women.

⚠️ What this means: Behind each statistic is a real person, a woman, a girl, a friend, a family member, whose life may be affected by violence. GBV isn’t just a personal issue; it’s a global crisis rooted in inequality, silence and shame.

💬 What can we do:
👉🏽 Believe and support survivors. Online abuse is real abuse.
👉🏽 Call out harmful behaviour even if it’s “just a comment.”
👉🏽 Educate yourself and others about consent, respect and digital safety.
👉🏽 Report, block and document online harassment.
👉🏽 Advocate for accountability from institutions and tech platforms.
👉🏽 Create safe spaces, in our homes, communities and online group chats.

Ending GBV is everyone’s responsibility. Together, let’s build a world where women and girls can live, speak, and connect, online and offline, with dignity, respect and freedom.

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03/11/2025

🏏 Champions: India Win the Women’s World Cup! 🏆

After five decades since their first appearance in cricket, India’s women have made history. They clinched their first ever Women’s Cricket World Cup on home soil. In a thrilling final in Navi Mumbai, India posted 298–7 and then bowled out South Africa for 246, sealing victory by 52 runs.

The heroes were many. Shafali Verma, brought in as an injury replacement, smashed a fearless 87 off 78 balls and grabbed two wickets, turning the tide. Deepti Sharma shone with both bat and ball, contributing a crucial 58 and taking the wicket of Laura Wolvaardt. Richa Ghosh added spark with a quick 34 off 24 balls.

💬 Captain Harmanpreet Kaur led with heart, grace, and belief. “I am so grateful for this crowd – thank you for being there for us. We lost three back-to-back games, but we knew this team had something special to turn things around.”

As the tricolour waved across the stands, one thing was clear, this was more than just a victory, it is a statement that women’s sport, long pushed to the sidelines, belongs at the centre. In India, where cricket is religion, this win validates decades of dreams, struggles, and perseverance. The roar that echoed through Navi Mumbai wasn’t only for a team, it was for every girl who’s ever picked up a bat and dared to dream bigger.

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31/10/2025

Women’s Rights Organisations are Being Pushed to the Brink

A new UN Women report ‘At Risk and Underfunded’, founded that globally 1 in 3 organisations working to end violence against women and girls have been forced to suspend or shut down programmes due to funding cuts by governments.

This report surveyed 428 women’s rights and civil society organisations, revealing stark results:
🛑 34% have suspended or shut down programmes to end violence against women and girls.
💰 40% have scaled back or closed services such as shelters, legal aid, psychosocial, and healthcare support due to immediate funding gaps.
📉 78% report reduced access to essential services for survivors.
⚠️ 59% say violence is becoming normalised and impunity is rising.
💔 Nearly 1 in 4 have had to halt prevention work entirely, allowing cycles of violence to continue unchallenged.

🗣️ “Women’s rights organisations are the backbone of progress on violence against women, yet they are being pushed to the brink,” says Kalliopi Mingeirou, Chief of UN Women’s Ending Violence Against Women and Girls section. “We cannot allow funding cuts to erase decades of hard-won gains.”

This crisis comes as the world marks 30 years since the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, a historic roadmap for gender equality and women’s rights. But progress is slipping away: Only 5% of organisations expect to survive beyond two years, and 85% fear severe backsliding in laws and protections for women and girls.

Now more than ever, we must ACT. Governments and donors must protect, expand, and make funding flexible for women’s rights organisations. Every dollar invested helps save lives, defend rights, and build a future free from violence for women and girls.

Source: At Risk and Underfunded report by UN Women

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19/10/2025

wishes all those celebrating a very happy and prosperous Diwali 🪔

14/10/2025

Karnataka has become the first Indian state to grant one day of paid menstrual leave per month to women in both the public and private sectors.

Karnataka’s move acknowledges what science and lived experience have always shown: Menstruation can bring real physical and mental challenges that can affect productivity and well-being.

💬 “It’s a step toward a more humane, understanding, and inclusive workplace,” said Chief Minister Siddaramaiah when announcing the Menstrual Leave Policy 2025.

Odisha and Bihar offer menstrual leave to government employees, while Kerala has introduced a similar provision for students and staff in universities.

Several companies were already ahead of the curve: 🌸 Zomato introduced paid period leave in 2020. 🌸 Swiggy, Larsen & Toubro, Byju’s, and Gozoop also have similar internal policies, recognising the importance of menstrual health in retaining and empowering women employees.

It is important to remember that period leave is not a perk, it is a necessity for women who need it. A third of women experience severe pain known as dysmenorrhea (Spanish Gynaecology and Obstetrics Society), caused due to conditions such as endometriosis and uterine fibrosis.

💬 Activist Brinda Adige said “This is a commendable step toward recognising the genuine health needs of women in the workplace.”

While this policy is step in the right direction, wee must not forget the reality of millions of women across India. Menstruation is still surrounded by stigma, shame, and misinformation. Access to affordable and hygienic menstrual products is limited, and many young girls miss school each month because of inadequate facilities and social taboos.

A policy like this is important, but it must be matched with broader efforts: Menstrual education, affordability of sanitary products, and dismantling of cultural myths that continue to isolate women.

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06/10/2025

30 years after Beijing, women are STILL being sidelined from the rooms where decisions about their futures are made.💜🌍

At , leaders reflected on progress—but the truth is clear:
✅ When women are part of peace talks, agreements last longer.
🚫 Yet women are still excluded.
💸 Feminist orgs are underfunded.
📉 Women defenders face harassment and violence.
🪩 Intersectional voices remain invisible.

But change IS happening: UN Women brought grassroots peacebuilders and activists from conflict zones into global conversations, mobilised funding, and pushed leaders to move beyond promises toward action.

Now it’s on governments and leaders:
👉 Will they put women at the decision-making table?
👉 Will they fund feminist movements?
👉 Will they center the most marginalised?

What’s the FIRST step leaders should take? Tell us in the comments.👇🏽

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09/09/2025

👩⚖️ Why India’s Judiciary Needs More Women

When we think of justice, we think of fairness, balance, and representation. Yet India’s judiciary—the very system meant to safeguard our rights—remains one of the least gender-diverse institutions in the country. Today, only about 13% of judges in High Courts and around 36% in district courts are women. At the Supreme Court, the numbers are even lower. This gap doesn’t just reflect inequality; it also affects how justice is delivered and how people experience the legal system.

Out of 34 judges, only one is a woman—Justice B.V. Nagarathna. The last time a woman was sworn in was on August 31, 2021, when three women—Hima Kohli, Bela Trivedi, and Nagarathna—were appointed simultaneously. Since then, no other woman has been appointed. The High Courts are only marginally better: out of 779 judges, just 105 are women, which is roughly 13.5%. In a recent batch of 14 appointments to the Bombay High Court, only one was a woman.
Representation does make a difference. India’s top-performing High Courts are also the most gender-representative, according to the Centre for Law and Policy Research (CLPR). In Telangana, women constitute 10 of 30 judges, and they also hold 50% representation in the lower judiciary. In Sikkim, the figure is 33.3%, and in Manipur, it stands at 25%. Interestingly, the worst-ranked courts—Meghalaya, Tripura, and Uttarakhand—had no women judges as of March 2025.

This isn’t just about numbers. Representation matters not because women are inherently more progressive or feminist than men, but because judges from diverse backgrounds bring their lived experiences to the bench. As Senior Advocate and CLPR Executive Director Jayna Kothari explains, this diversity “leads to a better set of judicial outcomes.”
Ultimately, when decisions impact half the population, the bench should reflect the nation itself. What reforms do you think are needed to bring more women into the judiciary? Share your thoughts in the comments below.

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01/09/2025

🔍 The Women’s Safety Gap: What the NARI 2025 Report Says About Indian Cities

The National Annual Report and Index on women’s safety (NARI) 2025, by National Commission for Women (NCW), surveyed 12,770 women across 31 cities. The report highlights the stark gap between official safety numbers and how women actually feel on ground. Cities may look “safe” on paper, but daily experiences tell a more troubling story. Despite a national safety score of 65%, a large proportion of women still hesitate to call their cities safe. Underreporting, weak infrastructure, and lack of trust in authorities are widening the gap between perception and reality.

🔑 Key findings:
▪️The national safety score stood at 65%, yet 4 in 10 women feel unsafe.
▪️Only 1 in 3 women report harassment, with verbal abuse being the most common.
▪️Safest cities: Kohima, Visakhapatnam, Bhubaneswar, Aizawl, Gangtok, Itanagar, and Mumbai.
▪️Least safe cities: Patna, Jaipur, Faridabad, Delhi, Kolkata, Srinagar, and Ranchi.
▪️Trust deficit: Only 25% of women believe authorities will act effectively.

Chennai (ranked 21st with a score of 61.7%) sees 54% of women feeling safe, though concerns around public transport, poor lighting, and harassment persist. Meanwhile, Jaipur (25th place with 59.1%) struggles even more; only 10% of women feel “highly safe” after dark, with weak infrastructure and underreporting magnifying vulnerabilities.

These numbers underscore a bigger truth: Safety isn’t just about policing, it’s about women’s freedom to move, work, and live with dignity. As NCW Chairperson Vijaya Rahatkar emphasised, solutions must go beyond law enforcement, integrating better urban design, gender-sensitive infrastructure, and stronger accountability.

To build safer cities, we need:
▪️Gender-inclusive urban planning (lighting, toilets, safe public spaces)
▪️More women in law enforcement and civic services.
▪️Reliable mechanisms for reporting and action.
▪️Education on how to treat women right and respect them.

What changes do you think will make cities safe for women? Let us know in the comments.

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18/08/2025

Ten-Year-Old Bodhana Sivanandan: A Chess Prodigy Making History ♟️

At just 10 years, 5 months, and 3 days old, Bodhana Sivanandan has amazed the chess world by becoming the youngest female player ever to defeat a grandmaster in a classical game. Her historic victory came at the 2025 British Chess Championships in Liverpool, where she outplayed 60-year-old Grandmaster Peter Wells in the final round.

This achievement broke the previous record set by American prodigy Carissa Yip, who was nearly 11 when she beat her first grandmaster in 2019. More than just a symbolic milestone, Bodhana’s result secured her the prestigious Woman International Master (WIM) title, a stepping stone toward the highest honours in chess, the Woman Grandmaster title.

Raised in Harrow, northwest London, Bodhana first discovered chess at age five during the COVID-19 lockdowns. By eight, she had already been crowned best female player at the European rapid and blitz championships. That same year she represented England at the Chess Olympiad, becoming the youngest player ever to represent the country in any sport.

In 2024, she became a Woman FIDE Master and in July 2025 she earned her first Woman Grandmaster norm*, at a younger age than even the legendary Hou Yifan. She finished the Liverpool tournament with her third WIM norm and a performance rating above 2300. Commentators hailed her victory as “extraordinary,” not only for its historic value, but for the maturity she showed against vastly more experienced opponents.

Bodhana’s breakthrough is more than a personal triumph. It’s a landmark moment for women in chess, inspiring a new generation of girls to pursue the game at the highest levels. Her discipline, creativity, and composure suggest she is only at the beginning of what promises to be an extraordinary career.

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*Grandmaster norm means that she performed at a Grandmaster level in the tournament. Once she collects three norms and achieves the required rating, and she will become a earn the Grandmaster title.

11/08/2025

Women at the Helm: Driving India’s Economic Growth

Gujarat has achieved a remarkable milestone: 5.96 Lakh rural women have crossed the ₹1 Lakh annual household income mark under the “Lakhpati Didi Yojana”, part of the larger vision of building a Viksit Bharat by 2027. The state now aims to uplift 10 Lakh women into this income bracket, with over 10.74 Lakh women already identified through the Digital Aajeevika register.

The “Lakhpati Didi Yojana” scheme aims to empower women associated with Self-Help Groups (SHGs) to launch micro-businesses in various sectors including agriculture and allied services, animal husbandry, local crafts and manufacturing, trade and services. The scheme provides support services such as skill development training, credit linkage and financial assistance, and market access and promotion support.

Across India other states are also setting ambitious benchmarks for women’s empowerment. Maharashtra, through its “Ladki Bahin Yojana” scheme, has already created 25 Lakh “Lakhpati Didis” and is targeting 1 Crore women, with monthly aid and SHG-linked retail spaces to boost income opportunities. Odisha’s “Subhadra Yojana” provides ₹50,000 over five years to women aged 21–60, already reaching 1.24 Crore beneficiaries. Similarly, Goa’s Startup Policy 2025 prioritises women entrepreneurs with the goal of creating 10,000 jobs, and Uttar Pradesh’s Building And Other Construction Workers (BoCW) Welfare Board has delivered education, healthcare, and financial support to over 63 Lakh women workers.

These programmes signal a powerful shift, showing how women are not just participants, but drivers of India’s economic transformation in India. From micro finance and market access to education and entrepreneurship, states are proving that targeted policy, when implemented correctly, can help millions of women become financially independent.

What more can the Government and employers do to empower and scale “Lakhpati Didis” across India? Let us know in the comments.

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