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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.
2 movementsEducation ×1990 to 2009 ×
1995 onwardStill going
A collective of sex workers formed in Sonagachi, Kolkata, out of an HIV prevention project. It campaigns for sex workers' rights and decriminalisation, runs a cooperative, and set up self-regulatory boards to stop…
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…
