Imagine a world in which the laws and policies of every country allowed women to fully enjoy their reproductive rights. While this is still a distant goal, a confluence of factors has enabled women’s health and rights advocates to bring it into focus. The 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) and the 1995 […]

ARROW marked the year 2005 with a number of firsts for the organisation: 1. In January, ARROW saw the transition from the co- founder and Executive Director of ARROW, Rashidah Abdullah, to the new in-coming Executive Director, Saira Shameem; 2. ARROW published and launched two critical publications this year – Monitoring Ten Years of ICPD […]

In 2009, the women’s movement will mark the 20th anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and the 15th anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD); yet, in all these years, the multifarious forms of gender-based violence across the globe have […]

Gender-based violence was a part of the everyday reality of many of the women from Rural Women’s Social Education Centre (RUWSEC), Chengalpattu, in Tamil Nadu, South India. While we encountered many forms of gender-based violence, including sexual assault and violence on young women who transgressed accepted norms of sexual conduct, spousal violence was by far […]