Gender democracy

Every now and then media reports fatwas issued by muftis in India, Saudi Arabia and other countries. One mufti in Saudi Arabia even suggested that if a Muslim woman has to keep a man for household work and interact with him though he is not mehram (from prohibited degree for marriage), she should suckle him from her breast to make him mehram. This fatwa was based on a hadith narrated by hazrat A’isha.

As a part of the ‘Northeast India Women's Initiative for Peace’, an initiative between the Control Arms Foundation of India (Manipur Women Gun Survivors Network) and the HBF, the UN Resolution 1325 has been translated into 3 local languages spoken in the Indo-Burma border

The largest minority of the world i.e. women still struggles for their basic rights and denial is justified through various religious and political processes. The report tries to explain the complex dynamics of religion and politics and their gender implications. The cross cultural nature of study have added various dimensions and perspectives

This web based economic literary dossier was prepared during the 2007 Hbf Summer school, hosted by our North America office. It has resources which continue to be critical reading material for those interested in engendering macro-economics. Especially those individuals and institutions interested/pursuing economic policy advocacy are encouraged to read