India: Maneka Gandhi On Metoo

1. Happy that 'MeToo' campaign has started in India: Maneka Gandhi  Daily Pioneer
2. Happy there's now a Me Too movement in India: Maneka Gandhi  India Today
3. ‘Anger never goes away’: Maneka Gandhi wants no time limit for #MeToo, sexual abuse complaints  Hindustan Times
4. Maneka Gandhi Says She Is 'Very Happy' That The #MeToo Movement Has Started In India  HuffPost India
5. Happy that MeToo movement has started in India, says Maneka Gandhi  Business Standard
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1. Maneka Gandhi proposes panel for #MeToo case public hearings  The Better India
2. Maneka Gandhi proposes panel to probe #MeToo allegations  Economic Times
3. Maneka Gandhi sets up panel to look into all MeToo cases  India Today
4. Union minister Maneka Gandhi proposes 4-member panel to look into #MeToo cases  Times of India
5. Panel of senior judges, legal experts to look into #MeToo cases, says Maneka Gandhi  The Indian Express
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Union Minister Maneka Gandhi has written to Information and Broadcasting Minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, demanding a probe into reports of sexual ...

New Delhi: MJ Akbar's resignation in the aftermath of the #MeToo movement has put the spotlight back on the judicial committee announced by women and ...

Tanushree, in her interview to News18, bemoaned that #MeToo will not happen unless there is acknowledgement of what happened to her.

Glad that women are speaking out. Whether it happened 10 years ago, a crime is a crime: Maneka Gandhi, Union Minister for Women and Child Development.

India News: Union minister Maneka Gandhi on Tuesday said we should start something like #MeTooIndia in which any woman, who is being harassed at any ...

The Union minister has promised schemes far more often than she has followed through on them, they said.

At present, the period of limitation allows any victim to report cases only within three years.

Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi has said the allegations of sexual harassment against anybody should be taken seriously as women ...

Her ministry will set up a five-member committee of jurists, including judges, to address issues raised by the #MeToo movement.

MeToo movement - The Modi government created a four-member Group of Ministers (GoM) Wednesday to battle sexual harassment at the workplace.

In the wake of #MeToo campaign against sexual harassment, Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi on Thursday asked all political parties to ...

While the GoM headed by Home Minister Rajnath Singh is expected to meet on December 10, ET has learnt that the WCD minister is likely to suggest giving ...

The Indian Express spoke to women who have alleged sexual or mental harassment in AIR stations in Shahdol and Sagar in Madhya Pradesh, Obra in Uttar ...

A case in point as to why due process not only fails women, but suppresses and intimidates them, is that of Symbiosis Law School, Hyderabad (SLS-H).

There must be investigation. Men in position of power often indulge in such acts,” said Maneka Gandhi, becoming the first government minister to react to ...

Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi speaks on the #MeToo campaign. She says that she welcomes the stories that are coming out on ...

It is almost a week since allegations of sexual harassment were first levelled against Union Minister of State MJ Akbar under the ongoing MeToo Movement in ...

Sona Mohapatra expressed her displeasure after Kailash Kher, who was one of the names accused in the #Metoo movement, performed at the Ujjwala Utsav in ...

India News: A leading women's body Tuesday wrote to Union Ministers Rajnath Singh and Maneka Gandhi, urging their intervention for a "fair and impartial ...

MUMBAI, India — After a year of fits and starts, India's #MeToo movement has leapt forward over the past week, getting concrete action in two of the country's ...

India News: NEW DELHI: At a time when the #MeToo movement has brought focus on cases of sexual harassment at workplace, minister for women and child ...

After numerous sexual harassment allegations surfaced against All India Radio employees, Woman and Child Development (WCD) minister Maneka Gandhi ...

Amidst the heat generated by the #MeToo movement which forced Minister of State for External Affairs AJ Akbar to step down, think-tank Centre for ...

Delhi-based think tank Centre for Accountability and Systemic Change (CASC) has served a legal notice to Maneka Gandhi, the Union Minister for Women and ...

The letter comes days after Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh held the first meeting of the Group of Ministers (GoM) set up in the wake of the MeToo campaign.

While speaking to media about the Tanushree Dutta case, Maneka Gandhi signalled a warning saying harassment of any kind will not be tolerated. She recalled ...

Me Too campaign in India: The move by the government comes even as Mumbai Police began its probe against actor Nana Patekar and opposition raised its ...

Union WCD minister Maneka Gandhi writes to I&B minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore and over reports of sexual harassment faced by working women in ...

It is India's #MeToo moment with several cases of sexual harassment at the workplace being revealed. Here are some cases that have shaken the corporate ...

Toxic femininity and freedom of movement are the two challenges left before #MeTooIndia and the world, writes Sucheta Dasgupta. In Part 2 of this six-part ...

The #MeToo campaign, which has been raging on the Indian social media for the past few days, is the beginning of a wrong practice, according to the BJP MP ...

The Ministry of Women and Child Development on Friday said it would set up a panel to examine the legal framework in place to handle complaints of ...

In a letter to Gandhi, the Central Committee of the CPI(M) said it has constituted the internal complaints committee soon after the gazette notification of the sexual ...

The central government has decided to form a panel consisting of a group of ministers chaired by Home Minister Rajnath Singh which will be tasked with ...

India News: The GoM will include women & child development minister Maneka Gandhi and defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman. The panel will give its report ...

The women and child development minister has asked that people be allowed to report such abuse even 15 years later.

Despite women taking to the social media to talk about sexual harassment faced at the workplace which has compelled a number of prominent individuals, ...

The Women and Child Development Ministry has linked its online portal to report complaints of alleged sexual harassment at workplace to all central and state ...

India News: NEW DELHI: The minister for women and child development, Maneka Gandhi has sought the intervention of home minister Rajnath Singh to issue ...

The impact of the movement has been huge, although there are still many question about what happens next.

Although several leaders commented on the movement as a whole, it was MJ Akbar which forced senior politicians to come out from their woodwork of neutrality, ...

India's government will establish a committee of senior judges to examine the flood of sexual harassment complaints against prominent members of the country's ...

India News: NEW DELHI: A group of ministers formed in the wake of the #MeToo movement to strengthen the legal and institutional frameworks to prevent ...

From a trail of resignations to formation of ministerial panels and small scale initiatives, MeToo has clearly transcended online boundaries.

The panel asked the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting to submit a status report within a week.

There is much that can be done by MeToo pioneers to improve conditions in the workplace for these most voiceless and vulnerable of India's working women.

Gandhi wants the NCW to have power akin to the civil courts as it would help the body to address all complaints that come to it. The focus of the meeting would ...

The #MeToo movement has only just begun in India, and it has already seen several big names like Alok Nath, Vikas Bahl, Nana Patekar, Sajid Khan, Anu Malik ...

BENGALURU: Union Minister K Alphons on Friday said #MeToo was a "good movement" as whatever "inappropriate" has taken place should come out in public ...

In the wake of the #MeToo campaign, Maneka Gandhi said a committee of four retired judges will conduct public hearings of the cases.

In the past few days, several women have taken to Twitter and Facebook to describe the sexual abuse and assault they had been subject to at work, naming ...

With #MeToo we are in a much more intense phase of the Revolution which is sweeping India.

The National Commission for Women has urged the Information and Broadcasting Ministry to direct print, publication and production houses to form internal ...

The #MeToo movement was also responsible for the Corporate Affairs Ministry finally acceding to Maneka's two-year-old request for mandatory disclosure by all ...

Female reporter claims junior foreign minister MJ Akbar preyed on her in job interview.

In the end, the pressure was too much for even a brazen, blustering M.J. Akbar to withstand. And that must in large part be due to the women who, far from being ...

The complaints were filed on the online portal, She-Box, which the ministry then forwards to the respective workplaces.

Menaka also pulled up representatives of the states that are yet to respond to a WCD Ministry's letter seeking details on number of 'rape kits' procured by them.

Significant announcements in solidarity with the #MeToo movement were made on Friday, as a new day also rang in *fresh* allegations. Congress president ...

The Hindu's coverage of the stories of sexual harassment that have been unveiled on social media in the past few days, ranging from assault to propositioning, ...

On Tuesday, even as the #MeToo movement quickened the exit of Fairoz Khan, head of the Congress's student wing, over charges of sexual misconduct, the ...

India's #MeToo movement is gathering momentum. On the back of AIB founders stepping down due to sexual misconduct allegations, Prashant Jha, the Chief of ...

The Group of Ministers (GoM) constituted to examine sexual harassment at the workplace may consider amending the law against sexual harassment at ...

India News: NEW DELHI: Women and child development minister Maneka Gandhi on Sunday lashed out at the BJP-led Maharashtra government over the ...

Six years ago, Indian women set in motion their epochal demand for equal rights by protesting the brutal rape and murder of Jyoti Singh. The 23-year-old New ...

Looking back, the signs were all there. A fierce femme revolution was on its way. For years, our judiciary, bound by archaic terminology and a similar mindset, ...

The #MeToo campaign has left the entire nation in a state of shock with more women recounting their experiences of sexual harassment in the entertainment ...

Several commentators have said that the #MeToo movement would fizzle out unless legal recourse is taken by or on behalf of women who have spoken up.

After serious of noted people being accused of sexual harassment, the MeToo storm has now taken over All India Radio (AIR) stations across the country.

The former Supreme Court judge on the practical challenge of resolving complaints that are old, how the Vishakha guidelines were designed for contemporary ...

More than half a dozen women journalists have accused MJ Akbar of sexual harassment and inappropriate behaviour at various stages of his journalistic career, ...

Union Minister K Alphons on Friday said #MeToo was a "good movement" as whatever "inappropriate" has taken place should come out in public domain, but ...

Be it the #MeToo case involving M.J. Akbar or Avni killing, Maneka Gandhi has spoken her mind, demanding punishment for the 'guilty'.

Amid the #MeToo storm, Congress president Rahul Gandhi broke his silence on the issue and came out in support of the anti-abuse movement, saying it was ...

Later on, a situation should not arise when the alliance partners are deceived by the Congress and are forced to scream #MeToo, Rajnath Singh cautioned.

Shweta Pandit, who has accused music composer Anu Malik in #MeToo movement, says she has realised that child abuse is not taken seriously by most men in ...

Singer Sona Mohapatra has accused singer-composer Kailash Kher of sexual misconduct, claiming he once placed his hands on her thigh. Mohapatra, who is ...

Congress has also been questioning the silence of the ruling party and Union ministers over the allegations against MJ Akbar.

Tanmay Bhat and Gursimran Khambar, both stand-up comedians and co-founders of the popular collective All India Bakchod, will be "stepping away" from any ...

Rahul Johri is the CEO of Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) since April 2016.

On a day that two more women came out to allege sexual harassment at the hands of Union Minister M J Akbar from his time as a newspaper editor, National ...

Ayushmann Khurrana, who is currently enjoying the success of his movie Badhaai Ho, has supported the #MeToo movement and said men need to understand ...

The air hostess in the letter also marked to the Prime Minister had demanded from the civil aviation minister to set a neutral committee to investigate the incident ...

An unidentified woman employee of the production company alleged that Bahl sexually assaulted her in Goa during a promotional tour for the movie 'Bombay ...

Singer Shweta Pandit says child abuse is not taken seriously by men in the country. Recently, Shweta Pandit had accused veteran music composer, Anu Malik ...

Terming it the first ever response globally to the #MeToo campaign at the government level, Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi Tuesday ...

Senior advocate Rebecca John is a firm supporter of the #MeToo campaign and someone who has readily come forward to offer legal help to women who have ...

The Indian Women's Press Corps pointed out that all media organisations have a legal obligation to set up internal complaints committees in every branch office.

Tanushree Dutta-Nana Patekar Sexual Harassmet Row LIVE Updates: Incident had taken place a decade ago, on the sets of the film Horn OK Pleasss.

Where was the Government when these ladies opened up few years back ? Why is it that these women victims had to wait for a campaign to be heard? Inspite of ...

More women recounted in detail their alleged accounts of sexual harassment and assault at the hands of Union minister M J Akbar and actor Alok Nath as newer ...

Prominent advocate Raian Karanjawala has described the allegations of sexual harassment made by Seema Sapra, a lawyer, against him as false, wild and ...

Actors Ayushman Khurana and Raveena Tandon address the issue of workplace harassment in and out of the film industry.

A Bollywood superstar has shut down production of his latest film over claims of sexual harassment against two members of the cast and crew, as MeToo ...

Sharma said the review of past cases and discussions with officials in the matter shows that the Air has been a “hub of sexual harassment at workplace”.

By Prarthana Mitra. Note: Here's a list of all those who have been accused. Qrius will update this list as and when more names emerge. Last month during an ...