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Short histories of 65 feminist movements, India and South Asia first. Each has a timeline, links to read more elsewhere, and books from our shelf where we have them. These are starting points, not the last word: tell us what is missing through the complaints box or a discussion thread.
4 movementsWar, peace and memory ×1990 to 2009 ×Still going ×
2006 onwardStill going
A women's group in Bundelkhand, Uttar Pradesh, founded by Sampat Pal Devi, its members recognisable by their pink saris. It confronts domestic violence, dowry, child marriage and corrupt officials, sometimes armed with…
1990 onwardStill going
Mothers of young men 'disappeared' during the state's crackdown on the JVP insurgency in the south organised to demand answers, using their identity as mothers when other protest was dangerous. Tamil mothers in the…
Violence and safetyWar, peace and memory
TimelineBackground: the 1987–89 JVP insurrection, on Wikipedia ↗ (opens in a new tab)
1995 onwardStill going
Mothers and relatives of people forcibly disappeared in Turkey in the 1980s and 1990s, many of them Kurdish, have gathered every Saturday in Istanbul's Galatasaray Square since 1995, holding photographs and asking where…
1991 onwardStill going
In August 1991 Kim Hak-sun became the first survivor to speak publicly about being forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military. Survivors and supporters have held a protest outside the Japanese embassy in Seoul…
