5 million women form human chain in India to protest temple ban

An estimated 5 million women in India joined forces to form a human chain to protest gender inequality and a Hindu temple’s centuries-old ban on all women of “menstruating age.”

On Jan. 1, 2019, women in Kerala, southern India, joined to form a 385-mile (620km) “women’s wall” to protest the persistent barring of women from the Sabarimala temple, which has historically banned women aged between 10 and 50. 

After the formation of the protest, two women entered the temple for the first time following the lifting of the ban by the Supreme Court in September 2018Per the BBC, protesters have since attacked women who’ve attempted to enter the temple.  Read more…

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