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#India – 19-yr-old shot by her father and brothers #Honourkilling #Vaw #WTFnews

Manish Sahu : Lucknow, Thu Nov 14 2013, A 19-year-old girl of Thakur community was shot by her father and two brothers when they found a Dalit youth in her room at their house in Etmadpur police station area of Agra… Continue Reading →

‘Anti-Rape Underwear’ reinforces every Rape Myth #WTFnews #Vaw

Think Progress / By Tara Culp-Ressler The line includes several different types of underwear and shorts that are intended to be difficult for a sexual predator to remove. November 6, 2013  |   A company named AR Wear is making waves by marketing “a clothing line… Continue Reading →

Cycling in India is not pleasurable at all, compared to the West #Vaw #Sundayreading

More skirts in the saddle Padmaparna Ghosh, TNN | Oct 27, 2013, Shalini Rao can cycle in the French Alps but the far less challenging Nandi Hills stresses her out. The 48-year-old ENT surgeon, a cycling enthusiast , says dealing with street harassment is far tougher than… Continue Reading →

#Honourkilling: Father says ‘no remorse’ after family lynched girl, beheaded boy #Haryana #Vaw #WTFnews

CNN-IBN | Updated Sep 19, 2013 at 08:54pm IST Rohtak: In a case of alleged honour killing in Haryana, a young couple was murdered by the girl’s family after the duo allegedly eloped to get married. Nidhi and her friend… Continue Reading →

#India – Woman Raped by father, brother for 9 yrs #Vaw #incest #WTFnews

Express News Service : Lucknow, Thu Sep 05 2013, A long queue of people wait outside the UP Chief Minister’s Lucknow residence on Wednesday. UP: Raped by father and brother for 9 years, woman tells Akhilesh Yadav at a public… Continue Reading →

Sexual violence in the U S military: appendage of a glorified institution #Vaw #mustread

Monday, Sep 2, 2013, 8:17 IST | Agency: DNA Jinee Lokaneeta It is a reflection of the misogyny and violence against women in civilian society. In 2005, Kori Cioca, a United States coast guard was raped and brutally beaten by… Continue Reading →

Mumbai Police Circular on Sexual Offences Against Women and Children #Vaw #mustshare

  RAHAT is a collaboration between Women and Child Development and Majlis Legal Centre to provide Socio-Legal Support to Victims Sexual Assault. In order to achieve this objective RAHAT has collaborated with Mumbai Police. One of our initiatives was to draft… Continue Reading →

#India – Silence is not an option, Haryana Dalit women fight back #Vaw #Womenrights

In caste-ridden Haryana, Dalit women fight back by speaking out. An exclusive ground report by Aradhna Wal. Photos by Ankit Agrawal 2013-08-17 , Issue 33 Volume 10 Manisha Devi | 27 ‘People warned me to leave the rape case alone…. Continue Reading →

Ranchi’s first RJ found dead in Munger hotel; rape suspected #Vaw #WTFnews

HT Correspondent, Hindustan Times  Ranchi, July 24, 2013 Sneha Singh, 25, Ranchi’s first radio jockey, who enthralled radio listeners of Jharkhand from 2008 to 2010, was found hanging from the ceiling of a hotel room in Munger district in Bihar. She… Continue Reading →

‘I can’t even cry anymore’: Annu Mukherjee, blinded in an acid attack #Vaw

Shalini Singh, Hindustan Times   July 24, 2013 I came to Delhi when I was three. My father was a lawyer and mother, a home-maker. My parents had decided that I should live with my childless aunt. I stayed with her in… Continue Reading →

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