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#India – Odisha Assembly passes anti-witch hunting Bill #Vaw #Justice

New indian express [ Updated 05 Dec 2013, 23:46:36 ] PRINT FONT SIZE Bhubaneswar: In a bid to protect women from being branded witch through the prevailing hunting and other similar practices, the Assembly today unanimously passed the Odisha Prevention of Witch-Hunting… Continue Reading →

#India – Use ‘Tehelka’ case to bring questions of women’s agency and safety centrestage #Vaw

The Indian Express So that she can speak Ania Loomba   The recent incident of sexual harassment at Tehelka has underlined the urgent necessity for implementing the Vishaka judgment and the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and… Continue Reading →

#India – Tejpal Test for People Like Us #Rape #Tehelka

“If the death penalty has to be awarded for a 19-year old, poor, illiterate and socially backward boy for committing gangrape, what should the corresponding punishment be for a father figure and the highest authority in the organisation, for finger… Continue Reading →

#India : The Politics of Special Legislations in India

    Asha Kowtal I was not yet in my first standard of school when the strategies of the Scheduled Caste Sub Plan (SCSP) (earlier known as Special Component Plan for Scheduled Castes) were put into force. Way back in… Continue Reading →

#India – IMA wants to opt out of the Consumer Protection Act #WTFnews

Week after SC’s damages award, IMA wants doctors out of consumer law’s ambit   Express news service Posted online: Fri Nov 01 2013,     New Delhi : A week after the Supreme Court awarded a landmark compensation of Rs… Continue Reading →

#India – Denying the disabled – A New Law, A Hope ? #disability

Frontline  : November 15, 2013 G. Moorthy Visually challenged persons working in the BPO set up on the Indian Association for Blind premises in Madurai. Indian courts have shown that they are ready for progressive interpretations of the law on the… Continue Reading →

#India – The Communal Violence Bill must become a Law

Priyanka Chaturvedi Tuesday, 22 October 2013 18:49 In 1989, Rajiv Gandhi government brought the Scheduled Castes and Schedules Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act to prevent atrocities against scheduled castes and scheduled tribes.  The Act was passed because the normal provisions… Continue Reading →

#India – Dalit conversions: Gujarat govt orders probe

Syed Khalique Ahmed : Ahmedabad, Wed Oct 16 2013, IE The Gujarat government has ordered an inquiry into the mass conversion of Dalits to Buddhism at Dungarpur village in Junagadh district on Sunday. Junagadh district collector Alok Pandey told The Indian… Continue Reading →

#India – Bihar not alone in denying justice to dalits #mustread

THE TIMES OF INDIA Deeptiman Tiwary, TNN | Oct 16, 2013   NEW DELHI: The recent acquittal of all accused in the Laxmanpur Bathe massacre case is not an isolated example of justice denied to dalits. In terms of conviction rate in cases… Continue Reading →

#India – In search of the ordinary woman #vaw #womenrights #mustread

PRABHA SRIDEVAN Contrary to the perception that she is vengeful and abuses the law, all she wants is a life of dignity Is there an Ordinary Woman? We need an image of her, if we have to negotiate a space… Continue Reading →

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