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Sounds of silence- Sec 66A-IT Act #FOE #FOS

Jug Suraiya 06 December 2012, 11:12 PM IST, TNN Following several cases of people in various parts of the country being sent to jail because of comments they had either made, or even just approved of, on social networking sites,… Continue Reading →

#MaritalRape and the Indian legal scenario #mustshare #Vaw

Priyanka Rath seeks to bring out the laws regarding rape in India while concentrating on the position of marital rape and its recognition as an offence by the system and the attitude of the society and the judiciary towards marital rape…. Continue Reading →

#India-Criminal recognition to #maritalrape in India is long overdue #Vaw

Madhavi Rajadhyaksha, TNN Dec 4, 2012, 10.26PM IST   MUMBAI: A case in a Delhi court this week has put the spotlight on a crucial lacuna in the criminal justice system in India. Marital rape is not recognised under the Indian… Continue Reading →

ATTN DELHI- Public Meeting on State, Sexual Violence and Impunity-9th Dec, 11AM –

   Dear All, We invite you to a meeting in Delhi to be hosted jointly by Women Against Sexual Violence and State Repression, its constituent members and WinG on     State, Sexual Violence and Impunity:  Facts from the Field… Continue Reading →

Nine-year-old visually challenged girl raped in Delhi #disability #Vaw #Shame

Published: Tuesday, Dec 4, 2012, 19:06 IST Place: New Delhi | Agency: IANS A nine-year-old visually challenged girl was raped by her former neighbour in Delhi, police said Tuesday, adding that the attacker has been arrested. The girl was alone at… Continue Reading →

Khap panchayats oppose marriage in same gotra to control landholdings #Vaw #Honorkillings

Dictated by land Author(s): Richard Mahapatra, down to earth Date: Nov 30, 2012 It was a season of sons-in-law in Haryana. In October, the Congress-ruled state government scrambled to clean its records in the face of alleged undue favours to… Continue Reading →

One Billion Rising # Mumbai- Feminist Film Festival @7dec-9dec #Vaw

  Highlights from the mumbai edition of   OUR LIVES…TO LIVE (NO!to gender violence (films of courage, protest, hope)   7-9 Dec 2013 FD Zone Auditorium, 10th Floor, Films Division, 24 Dr G Deshmukh Marg (Peddar Rd), Mumbai-400026    … Continue Reading →

Cash Prizes Fuel India’s Sterilization Overdrive #Vaw #Coercion #Reproductiverights

By Swapna Majumdar WeNews correspondent Wednesday, December 5, 2012 Spurred by cash incentives, state workers in the state of Rajasthan offer prizes to women to undergo tubal ligation in mass sterilization drives. Critics call it a coercive process that restricts… Continue Reading →

#SoniSori needs psychological counselling: NCW #Vaw #Torture

December 05, 2012 15:08 IST A National Commission for Women member has stressed that Soni Sori, the tribal teacher arrested for alleged Maoist links, needs psychological counselling so that she gets over the mental trauma she had suffered in police… Continue Reading →

#India-191 fake encounters in last five years, NHRC tells Supreme Court

    By Dhananjay Mahapatra, TNN | Dec 5, 2012, 05.22 AM IST SC has an explosive situation on its hands as the NHRC informed it that 191 fake encounter killings took place in the country in the last five years. NEW DELHI:… Continue Reading →

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