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Posters warn girls of acid attacks if seen in jeans in Ranchi #VAW #Moralpolicing

Alok K N Mishra, TNN | Aug 8, 2012, Posters threaten attack on girls for wearing jeans RANCHI: Posters warning of serious consequences like acid attacks if women wore jeans and tops created panic across the city on Tuesday but police refused to react… Continue Reading →

Rejoinder to story on #SoniSori in Indian Express: (IADHRI)

    The  International Alliance for Defence of Human Rights in India (IADHRI) is based in the US and has participated in the campaigns for the release of Dr. Binayak Sen, Kopa Kunjam and now more recently Soni Sori and Lingaram Kodopi. On August 5th, The… Continue Reading →

“It would have been better if you had given me DEATH PENALTY”- #SoniSori writes from Raipur Prison

  Translation of Soni  Sori’s letter from Raipur Prison on July 28. 2012 Letter in name of Supreme Court, Judge  from Raipur Jail Your Honour , Today I am alive , because of your verdict. You gave the order at… Continue Reading →

NHRC yet to act on a petition on the re-arrest of civil rights activist #IromSharmila.

  NHRC yet to act on Sharmila’s re-arrest By Express News Service – NEW DELHI   03rd August 2012 10:18 AM The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) is yet to act over a petition highlighting the re-arrest of civil rights activist… Continue Reading →

MUMBAI-Woman stabbed 20 times while people look on #WTFnews

V Narayan, TNN | Aug 1, 2012 MUMBAI: A gym instructor stabbed a woman 20 times on Monday evening in the middle of a road in Andheri (East), notwithstanding the presence of scores of bystanders. The woman, a 24-year-old accountant, had refused to… Continue Reading →

The great unmentionable in disability politics #mustread

      RAHILA GUPTA , 31 July 2012    “I felt there was no space for me to express grief at my son’s disability”. The grief of those who care for people with a disability is betrayal of the Cause.  Rahila… Continue Reading →

Mangalore attackers behaved like animals: victim #Moralpolicing #VAW

  Mangalore Bureau, The Hindu S The last building inside this gate is Morning Mist, a homestay at Padil. Photo: R.Eswarraj Hindu Jagaran Vedike responsible, says ADGP Bipin Gopalakrishna “I saw the men coming and jumped from the balcony, but… Continue Reading →

A long shadow: Nazi doctors, moral vulnerability and contemporary medical culture #SundayReading

    ABSTRACT More than 7% of all German physicians became members of the Nazi SS during World War II, compared with less than 1% of the general population. In so doing,these doctors willingly participated in genocide, something that should… Continue Reading →

JSPL guard part of plot to shoot RTI activist Ramsh Agarwal : Police

Friday, 27 July 2012, Zee News Staff Reporter In Raigarh In a stunning revelation, the police claimed on Thursday that a security guard working with private steel major Jindal Steel & Power Ltd (JSPL) had hired contract killers to shoot… Continue Reading →

In shadow of Maruti violence, memories of a police attack

Manesar, July 26, 2012 Aman Sethi, The Hindu “We fight because of the hunger in our stomachs” Seven years ago, Vikramjit Singh was in a crowd of about 800 workers from the Honda factory at Manesar in Haryana, when they… Continue Reading →

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