Rita Banerji is a writer, photographer and gender activist. Her book 'Sex and Power: Defining History, Shaping Societies' is a historical study of the relationship between gender, sexuality and power in India. She is the founder and director of The 50 Million Missing Campaign, a global campaign to end India's female gendercide. Twitter handle: @rita_banerji
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Published in: 50.50India's female genital mutilation: a thousand-year-old secret
So little was known, until recently, about the secretive practice of FGM in a small Muslim community that India is...
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Published in: 50.50A deadly politics of wealth: femicide in India
Census data shows that poverty and illiteracy are not key factors in India’s female genocide as many assume. The...