Blog posts by Suswati Basu: 2010
First anti-feminism meeting takes place in Switzerland
by Suswati Basu // 23 November 2010, 23:17
I have heard of everything now. In a secret Swiss location, 150 male activists gathered to hold the first ever “international antifeminism meeting”. SwissInfo.ch reports that, labelling themselves as “peacekeepers”, the Swiss based group IGAF (Interessengemeinschaft Antifeminismus) denounce feminist social...
Giving porn its own domain
by Suswati Basu // 14 July 2010, 10:12
Stuart Lawley, Internet entrepreneur, has won the right to start selling registrations to a new domain devoted to pornographic content, .xxx. Currently, there are 7 million adult domains and as Lawley continues to sell another half a million, revenues of...
Interview with an activist: the fight to make widow agenda a priority
by Suswati Basu // 3 July 2010, 23:16
Dr Mohini Giri, India’s leading woman’s activist is determined to see a shift within the treatment of widows. “India being a patriarchal society, the women is discriminated at her birth itself. Hence, when she loses her husband and becomes a...

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