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#India- Failure of governance root cause of crimes against women: #Vermacommittee #Vaw

NEW DELHI, January 23, 2013 PTI Justice J. S. Verma (centre) with panel members Justice Leila Seth (left), former Himachal Pradesh Chief Justice, and Gopal Subramaniam, former Solicitor General, addressing the media after submitting the committee’s report to Home Ministry, in… Continue Reading →

Chandigarh: 5 year old girl sexually assaulted, slapped and threatened by the driver of the private cab. #VAW #WTfnews

Jan 20, 2013   Sector 22, Chandigarh Abuse, maps4aid.com Action Taken: Sub-inspector Amarjeet Singh said a case of assault, molestation and threatening had been registered and the accused, Pawan, had been apprehended. The case was registered at the Sector 17 police station…. Continue Reading →

#India Fix the Rape Problem #Vaw #Justice #womenrights

 Aruna Kashyap Published in: The Daily Beast JANUARY 10, 2013 With politicians and the public at last giving sexual assault the attention it deserves, the time has come for action—and for dignified treatment of survivors of sexual assault. Aruna Kashyap,… Continue Reading →

Rape political tool in India: UN #Vaw #Caste

Zia Haq, Hindustan Times New Delhi, January 10, 2013 Dalit women constitute the worst victims of sexual violence in India, along with rapes committed by security forces, a UN-authorised status report has said.  A large proportion of such crimes against… Continue Reading →

Delhi priest arrested for raping woman, was he follower of #Asarambapu #religiousrapists

Inderjeet [ Updated 07 Jan 2013, 11:02:54 ], Indiatv New Delhi, Jan 7: Madan Mohan Sharma, a 55-year-old priest at a temple in Pandav Nagar, east Delhi, was arrested by police on Sunday on charge of raping a woman. The woman,… Continue Reading →

The rapes that India forgot #Vaw

  The BBC;s Geeta Pandey in Delhi remembers some of the prominent rape cases which made the headlines when they happened, but have now faded from the public memory.  There have been widespread protests in India since the 16 December… Continue Reading →

We must find a new language of defining women #Vaw #Feminism #Patriarchy

All about my mothers Monobina Gupta | January 5, 2013   We must find a new language of defining women because they can never be free, or safe, if we persist with old patriarchal notions of looking at them, says Monobina Gupta…. Continue Reading →

‘First’ Afghan female rapper seeks reason with rhymes #Womenrights #Vaw

By AFP Published: January 3, 2013 Soosan Feroz practicing with Afghan pop musician Farid Rastagar at a recording studio in Kabul. PHOTO: AFP KABUL: Sporting a long leather coat and western jeans under a headscarf, Soosan Feroz looks like many modern women… Continue Reading →

Who Are the Real ‘Encroachers’ In Mumbai ? #mustread #mustshare

Mumbai, the acclaimed financial capital of the country has 54 per cent of its population i.e more than 60 lakh people living in slums occupying only 6 % of the city’s land, as such; the city has been a site… Continue Reading →

#India- “Women Against Sexual Violence and State Repression” to the Justice Verma Commission #Vaw #Justice

(Women Against Sexual Violence and State Repression (WSS) is a non funded grassroots effort initiated in November 2009, to challenge the violence being perpetrated upon women’s bodies and societies. We are a nationwide network of women from diverse political and social… Continue Reading →

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