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Haryana 12-week pregnant women cannot teach #WTFnews

Sukhbir Siwach, TNN Apr 28, 2012, CHANDIGARH: New rules notified recently in Haryana bar more than 12-week pregnant teachers recruited in Haryana from joining work till they deliver and produce fitness certificates. They would not be entitled to get their salaries… Continue Reading →

Immediate Release–80 percent paraplegic Seema granted bail by Supreme Court

PEOPLE’S UNION FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES RAJASTHAN   N Delhi, 1st May, 2012 The Supreme Court today granted interim bail to Seema an 80 percent paraplegic, victim of custodial sexual torture, from Jaipur in Rajasthan. Seemahad been made an accused by the Jaipur Police (District East)… Continue Reading →

The Word on Women – Forced sterilization and the Millennium Development Goals

  By Widney Brown Two reports by the BCC this month raise the spectre that the United Nations Millennium Development Goals which include reducing maternal mortality and ensuring environmental sustainability may actually be undermining women’s sexual and reproductive rights. The… Continue Reading →

13 policemen will face trial for charges of gang rape in the case of Vakapalli tribal women #Rape #Vaw

 AP High Court orders that 13 policemen will face trial for charges of gang rape in the case of Vakapalli tribal women. The Vakapalli rape case has been coming up for hearing in the Andhra Pradesh High Court since the… Continue Reading →

Immediate Release-Shyam Benegal Sanctions 25 Lakh From MP Fund for Differently-Abled People

by Adapt (Able Disabled All People Together) on Thursday, 26 April 2012 at 19:38 · ~ Innauguarates facility from the funds he provided at ADAPT, Bandra centre ~ Mumbai, 26th April, 2012: Every Member of Parliament in India is given Rs. 5 crores… Continue Reading →

Female circumcision anger aired in India #FGM

By Rupam Jain Nair | AFP – Tue, Apr 24, 2012  AFP A Muslim woman from the Bohra community … Ashgar Ali Engineer, a Bohra Muslim … Eleven years ago, Farida Bano was circumcised by an aunt on a bunk bed in her family home at the end of her 10th… Continue Reading →

Online essay competition on disability issues

Sruti disAbility Rights Center invites you to join an online essay competition. Topics: 1.     My response to a wheelchair. 2.    When the bus conductor denied Nagma, a young blind girl, a journey to her destination… 3.    Inclusive Education for children with disabilities in… Continue Reading →

Disclose psychiatric info under RTI? Yes, says CIC; No, says HC

Pritha Chatterjee : New Delhi, Tue Apr 24 Do psychiatry patients have the right to access records of their treatment? While the Central Information Commission (CIC) directed a mental health hospital to provide this information to a patient, the hospital has… Continue Reading →

Having Sex: Mythbusting

Mythbusting ‘To be human is to be sexual’ Winder, 1983 Sexuality is often equated with just sex. Actually, it’s much broader and also encompasses gender identities and roles sexual orientation, eroticism, pleasure, intimacy and reproduction. Sexuality is experienced and expressed… Continue Reading →

And now, rape as political witch-hunt. The stories of 7 women

Tripura is the CPM’s last bastion. But its crude attempts to smother rivals is leaving the party red-faced, says Ratnadip Choudhury ON 20 MARCH, two tribal girls in their early 20s were allegedly tortured and gang-raped by a group of tribal men… Continue Reading →

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