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Since last few years Bharatiya Stree Shakti is working on the issue of ‘Need for safe and clean public toilets for women’ Bharatiya Stree Shakti (BSS)  demands Public toilets on the highways for men also. *Yes!  You read it correctly. Women’s organisation demands Public toilets for men.* Peeing in public is surely not a symbol…

The deputed team of ‘Bharatiya Stree Shakti’ Maharashtra State Executive committee,  had a meeting with Minister of Revenue, Public works, Government of Maharashtra ‘Shri Chandrakant Dada Patil’ at his office in Mantralaya. All the toilets on highways in Maharashtra  at every 100km will have proper arrangements for cleanliness management. His team was ready with the implementation…

Under total Sanitation Campaign , ‘Menstrual Hygiene’ is one of the components. In a woman’s life on an average 1750 days are spent by a woman during menstruation. Present Unhygienic disposal practices: 1) Disposal with Domestic waste 2) Sewerage line/Nalas in Basti 3) Disposal on the roads 4) Disposal in the toilets Impact of these…

KERALA : Stree Chetana in Kerala did a survey of status of Public Toilets in Kerala and demanded that the City Corporation provide better public toilets in the city. Women, outside their homes, go to restaurants not just to eat or drink but also to use the toilets. The major reason for this the inadequate…

A survey conducted by Bharatiya Stree Shakti shows that 90% of the young girls and women don’t know much about safe sex and safe sex practices. In this survey, more than 80% of young girls confessed ignorance about the dangerous side effects of Emergency Contraceptive pills. More than 90% of women expressed that these advertisements…

Size does matter  Medha Nanivadekar Times of India August 2, 2011 (Excerpt) The poorest MP-to-people ratio and a very low percentage of women in Parliament together pose a serious challenge to the legitimacy of Indian democracy. We can resolve both issues simply by linking them. Percentage of women in Parliament is a major indicator in…

Women in our study report the experience of a range of behaviours — while leading forms of harassment are verbal or psychological, disturbing numbers of women report such harassment as unwanted touch, and sexual gestures and exhibitionism. Experiences of sexual harassment reflect, by and large, power imbalances that make younger women and those in subordinate…

In domestic violence against women, men are either directly involved in crime or are connected as brother or father or any relative of victim woman. In social violence they are in active role or passive viewers. The campaign Men say no to violence was an awareness programme for men and an appeal to them to…

BSS belives that Domestic Violence is any form of Physical, Sexual and/ or Emotional Abuse experienced by Women from any age, socio economic, educational, occupational, religious and racial groups. It is a systematic way of maintaining power and control over women. Domestic Violence is a result of and is perpetuated by the patriarchal society we…

One in three girls and one in seven boys are sexually abused at some point in their childhood, according to most reliable studies of child sexual abuse. Most often child sexual abuse is a gradual process and not a single event. By learning the early warning signs and how to effectively step in and speak…