by blog-coro | Mar 26, 2019 | blog
According to UNICEF India data 2017, child marriage rate by 15 years is 18% and by 18 years is 47%. 27% of girls in India are married before their 18th birthday and 7% are married before the age of 15. India has the highest absolute number of child brides in the world...
by blog-coro | Feb 4, 2019 | blog
In Marathwada region of Maharashtra, a different kind of election was held in the first week of January. The peculiarity of this event was that only women were part of this election from filling up the candidature application to campaigning for their candidature among...
by blog-coro | Jan 22, 2019 | blog
Several women wondered. More than a month before 16th December, our community leaders began talking to women about participating in Pinkathon. “kya karna hai? Wahan jaake bhagna hi toh hai” (What do we have to do? Just go there and run) Many women said, “Kaise jayenge...
by blog-coro | Jan 16, 2019 | blog
Although Shakila was staying in Baignawadi for almost past two decades, she was not familiar with her locality till recently. She came here in 1991 after her marriage when she was only fifteen years old and confined her world to her home. Like most women in this...
by blog-coro | Jan 9, 2019 | blog
How do you imagine a typical rural setting, with water shortage? Our stereotypical mind will picturise a village where men are doing all the hardwork and each one in the village have their eyes fixed on the sky. Yes, it does sound like the Lagaan movie plot. But the...
