The confusion about the DV Act is about to be settled. A Petition has already been filed in Delhi High Court.
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A year ago
My maid is an illiterate woman from Bihar, Muslim by religion, but with relatively fair IQ for her being and upbringing. She is single-handed bringing up her 5 kids and taken steps to ensure no more babies all by herself. In response to her act, the husband went absconding for good 2 years. [...]
Dr. Mitu Khurana refused to abort her twin daughters when she was falsely tricked into a sex determination test by Dr.Kamal Khurana, her husband and also a doctor himself. Mitu’s story of struggle began here. Her staunch refusal to abort her children led her husband to eventually throw her out of their house. At other [...]
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If someone dislocated your jaw in one of the many violent beatings they gave you, how would you like to try to live with them and win their love?
23 year old Neha committed suicide on January 1st. Her family alleged that her in laws “used to beat her up…” [Link] “Once she was beaten so [...]
One of our rights advocates, Kaamini rang the bell.
Kaamini lives in a slum near the Shivaji Nagar area of Bangalore, India. She along with the help of few more girls, all of who have atteded a breakthrough leadership training, took action against a man who used to always get drunk and create nuisance in [...]
When the famous Bollywood film Khalnayak (Villan, 1993) was released there was an outcry in the nation protesting against the obscenity and vulgarity of the song ‘choli ke peeche’ featuring two women, (Neena Gupta and Madhuri Dixit) singing to each other in erotic banter with a silent male audience.
Before the 1990s, women in Hindi cinema [...]
Suresh has been associated with Breakthrough since early 2007.Since then he has been a Breakthrough Rights Advocate, a member of the Hingorana Network of Positive People, and a human rigths activist. For Suresh, change has always begun at home. Watch Suresh educate the community!
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Breakthrough recently conducted a 2 day workshop in Ladakh among a group of women under the auspices of the Women Building Peace project in Jammu and Kashmir, in collaboration with Wiscomp. In 2008, the group of women were gathered to form a socio-economic group called Samanbal and using this group as a platform they planned [...]
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Most of us skim over an occasional report in a newspaper or hear it mentioned once in a while on TV, but we don’t know what really goes on in dowry-related cases. Once in a blue moon, a dowry case is highlighted by the media but what with the skin-deep journalism we are accustommed to, [...]
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