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By Express News Service – NEW DELHI Published: 30th September 2013 12:03 PM The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has registered a case in connection with the gangrape and murder of a 25-year-old woman in Cuttack district. The NHRC decision came… Continue Reading →
State of unreason Rajeshwari Deshpande , IE The growing culture of violence in Maharashtra is surrounded by a politics of silence. Whoever may have actually killed him, social activist Narendra Dabholkar’s murder in Pune is an outcome… Continue Reading →
By Priyanka Borpujari In January 2012, BBC reported that India has more than 70,000 newspapers and over 80 news channels. It is the biggest newspaper market in the world, with more than 100 million copies sold daily. Stalwarts… Continue Reading →
Saudi human rights groups heartened by law aimed at reducing hidden abuse against women, children and domestic workers Reuters in Dubai theguardian.com, Thursday 29 August 2013 A poster from a campaign by the King Khalid Foundation to raise awareness in… Continue Reading →
Under section 154 CrPC Mr. SHO Sir, Kamla Market Station It is humbly requested that I am…………, studying in class 12 at Shri Asaram Ji Gurukul located at Parasiya Road, Chindhwada, Madhya Pradesh. I live with my family consisting… Continue Reading →
S Ahmed Ali, TNN | Aug 28, 2013, Mumbai gang-rape accused says gang has done it before MUMBAI: The accused in the Mumbai gangrape case have admitted to attacking at least fourwomen in Shakti Mills complex in the last six months, including raping a ragpicker… Continue Reading →
In two days, thousands of medical students across the country are once again planning to protest a new rule that makes rural posting compulsory. Are they all just urban brats or is there something more going on? By Jaimon Joseph | Grist Media – Fri… Continue Reading →
SC: Marriage deal no alibi to let off rapists Dhananjay Mahapatra, TNN | Aug 28, 2013, SC warns courts against showing leniency towards rape convicts NEW DELHI: In a landmark judgment laying down guidelines for courts in awarding punishment for rape, the Supreme… Continue Reading →
Flavia Agnes *You have written extensively on how the stigma attached to rape has to be rooted out of society and the need for change in terminology from “rape victim” to “rapes survivor”. We saw in the Delhi incident of… Continue Reading →
By THE NEW YORK TIMES Rafiq Maqbool/Associated Press People watching as youth demonstrate on Sunday against the gang rape of a photojournalist in Mumbai, Maharashtra. It was a familiar scene in the lower house of the Indian Parliament on Monday as Sushma… Continue Reading →