Widows

The purpose of International Widows Day is to raise awareness of the challenges faced by widows around the world and to emphasise the value of empowering and supporting them. Here is all the information you require regarding Widows Day's celebration, history, and date.
 

The existing provisions in the Act do not allow a single woman to go for abortion after 20 weeks while divorcees, widows, and some other categories of women are allowed termination of pregnancy up to 24 weeks on account of mental anguish and some other hardships.

The women created and decorated the rakhis before sending them to Delhi. According to Madan Jha, Sulabh International's media advisor, an organisation representative will deliver these rakhis to the Prime Minister's office.

Herwad village in Shirol taluka in Maharashtra's Kolhapur district bans customs like removing a widow's mangalsutra, toe ring, wiping her sindoor (vermilion) and breaking her bangles as part of age-old rituals

The ruling, issued in response to an appeal against the Madras High Court verdict, addressed the property rights of Hindu women and widows under the Hindu Succession Act.

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Over a hundred 'tiger widows' of Sundarban in West Bengal faced a massive hunger crisis amid the coronavirus-induced lockdown. A teacher with the help of others set up a community kitchen for them at a village school.
 

A young widow in Andhra Pradesh was adorned with flowers, new saree, bindhi and other symbols of marriage to assert the rights of widows to lead a dignified life sans discrimination, on the occasion of World Widow Day.

Most of the indebted farmers commit suicide believing that the debt will cease to exist if they end their lives. However, the lenders haunt the family - mostly the widows seeking their share from the ‘compensations’ they receive from government and other organisations.

In a shocking exposé, Suvarna News uncovered an inhuman practice where widows are being auctioned in Karnataka like commodities.