July, 2017
Sexual Violence: A Global Pandemic/ July 15th-21st
Sexual Violence: A Global Pandemic Written by Soyra Gune Edited by Vandita Morarka Policy and Legal Team Sexual violence is a global pandemic. One in three women experience sexual or physical violence – most likely from their intimate partner, according to a report from the [...]Read more
Awareness about Gender and Sexual Harassment
A workshop was conducted by Ashwini Syed, our Head of Operations and HR, at KPB Hinduja College, Mumbai, on 18 July 2017, with the objective of spreading awareness about sexual harassment and safety. As many as fifty students along with NSS members and a college professor [...]Read more
Gendering Responsibilities
Arshia Taqi is a third year law student at Pravin Gandhi College of Law, Mumbai and is also a trained yoga teacher. Gendering Responsibilities It is customary everywhere to classify the human community on the basis of sex into groups of ‘men’ and “women’. The biological fact of [...]Read more
Are there any typical sexual offenders?
A Colombian and French national, Jimena Serrano is based in Washington DC where she spends her time creating economic opportunities for women in the energy and agricultural sectors in Latin America for a development bank. Her prior experience includes the construction of indices [...]Read more
Emerging Leaders : Soyra Gune
Safecity is celebrating the journey of people who have emerged as leaders as our campaigns progressed in their communities through our blog series “Safecity Emerging Leaders“. Read the inspiring stories of these individuals who are passionate about making their neighbourhoods [...]Read more
Workplace Harassment
Workplace harassment is a very paramount topic to discuss about. Nowadays as the number of women in workplace is increasing day by day the harassment faced by them is also increasing. We have to find solution to this problem as soon as possible. Read more
Creating Awareness about Child Sexual Abuse
Naina Jha is the Program and Outreach Officer at Patna. She is a PR professional working with Greymatters Communications. She has worked with hospitals, advertising and PR agencies and has been working with ICWA to educate slum kids since 2005. She has also worked as a freelancer [...]Read more
Sexual Violence: A Global Pandemic/ July 8th-14th
Sexual Violence: A Global Pandemic Written by Adriana Rakshana Edited by Soyra Gune and Vandita Morarka Policy and Legal Team Sexual violence is a global pandemic. One in three women experience sexual or physical violence – most likely from their intimate partner, [...]Read more
Justice to to be served
Purvi Aggarwal is a bibliophile and strongly believes that reading can work miracles. She always strives towards bringing change. Her will to contribute to something productive is what makes her restless. Witnessing the plight of women provokes her to cease it. Justice to to be [...]Read more
Sexual Objectification -Individual or Social Phenomena
Prabhjyot Kaur is a 20 year old Mumbai girl whose daily aspiration is to add value to other’s thoughts along with her own. Sexual Objectification -Individual or Social Phenomena Today’s era is shaping a modern ideology of sexual objectification into our lifestyle. [...]Read more