Indians 4 Social Change

Issue Rape in India is a prominent issue that to this day has not been handled properly. If it were, the number of rape incidents wouldn’t be increasing dramatically. After the gang rape of a student in Delhi who lost her life, the number of reported rape incidents has doubled. …

What? Shhh… Can you hear that? Me neither. Women still aren’t speaking up in India to get their place in society. For centuries, women have been seen as inferior and therefore are given less importance in society. Whether it is trying to get justice after being sexually harassed or trying to …

Many forms of work are praised and glorified, because work is necessary in order for society to function. Some jobs however, are cruel, demeaning and dangerous. A prime example, one that sadly is all too common, is prostitution. Prostitution is not necessarily a job for the sex workers or victims …

Throughout history, women in India have been seen as inferior to men and therefore don’t have the same privileges and rights. Although India has progressed to some extent, there’s still undoubtedly a long way to go. Background India ranks 84th out of the 113 countries on The Economist’s Women’s Economic …

Rape isn’t new to India. Every single day, innocent women are raped and beaten to death by men in regular places that they thought they were safe in. Every single day, women and men protested with passion and determination, willing to come face to face with the police and willing …

Background When you hear that the amount of reported rape cases in India have gone up around 900 percent in the last 40 years, are you surprised? Most likely, you are not. Since the barbaric gang rape that killed a young woman in 2010, news about unsettling violence and rape against …

What Honor killing. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines it as, “the traditional practice in some countries of killing a family member who is believed to have brought shame on the family.” The definition itself is nauseating, but hearing it actually happen in modern Indian society is even worse. Issue On March …

Female feticide and infanticide have become such a disturbingly common aspect of India to the appalling point where it causes one to seriously wonder what fuels this. Devesh Lal is a Network Consultant in India for the international christian children’s charity, Viva. Lal believes that women have no voice in India, so they don’t …

Of the 1,219,300,00 people living in India, a small number of Indian men have finally started to wake up and realize it’s time to give women the rights they deserve. This is a major step in the process of trying to stop women from being made to feel inferior and finally giving …

To enroll in the armed forces is to dedicate and devote your life for the sake of your nation; it is the most honorable and noble service you can  provide for your country. But for the women of Sri Lanka, being in the army is not an honor, but a …