Below we publish the statement issued by the All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA), on October 21THE constitutional court judgment of the SC in the batch of petitions asking for recognition of same sex marriages has disappointingly held that there is no fundamental right to marry or to live together in a civil union with all the consequential benefits. The verdict is a huge setback to the LGBTQ+ couples who face several forms of discrimination in their daily lives since the law doesn’t recognise them as couples.

UNDER the banner of the All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA), thousands of women from 25 states will hold a massive public meeting at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi on October 5, 2023. Preparations for ‘Chalo Delhi’ are going on in full swing all over the country. Thousands of women are participating in the hundreds of jathas and padayatras going on throughout the month of September in villages and bastis in all states.

ASHA Workers Union – Jammu organised a day-long protest demonstration on August 22, 2023, near Maharaja Hari Singh Park in Jammu, to voice their genuine and longstanding demands. A substantial number of ASHA workers who have embarked on the ‘Kaam Chhodo Hadtal’ (leave work strike) participated in the demonstration, actively rallying for their demands.Om Parkash, working president of the CITU state committee, while addressing the gathering, said ASHA workers played a crucial role in the fight against the Covid pandemic.

THE All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA), in a statement issued on July 17, has expressed deep concern about the removal of anaemia from the survey indicators of NFHS- 6 by the BJP government.The previous NFHS -5 survey had revealed that over 57 per cent of women and over 67 per cent of children suffer from anaemia in our country. Prevalence of anaemia to such an extent cannot be dismissed as a mild problem or an isolated occurrence. Medical experts have pointed out that it is a major contributor to maternal and child mortality.

THE All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA), in a statement issued on June 26, has welcomed the path breaking judgment of the Madras High Court by Justice Krishnan Ramasamy in which he has decided that a home-maker who toils for the family and sacrifices her employment opportunities by staying at home, while the husband earns, is entitled to 50 per cent of all the properties that the parties have acquired. The judgment recognises that the contribution of a wife as a home-maker is as valuable as that of the husband who goes to work.In this particular case, the wife took care of the