2012 to 2013
The December 2012 protests
The gang rape and murder of a young woman on a bus in Delhi in December 2012 led to weeks of protests, many led by students and young women, demanding safety in public spaces and changes to the law.
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2012 to 2013
The gang rape and murder of a young woman on a bus in Delhi in December 2012 led to weeks of protests, many led by students and young women, demanding safety in public spaces and changes to the law.
December 2019 to March 2020
A sit-in led largely by Muslim women, many of them elderly, against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and the proposed National Register of Citizens. It held a Delhi road for over three months, inspired sit-ins across…