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Vol – XLIX No. 29, July 19, 2014 | Flavia Agnes, Audrey D’Mello, and Persis Sidhva The Shakti Mills trial of Mumbai, as the court cases relating to the two gang rapes in 2013 came to be known, led to the accused being sentenced… Continue Reading →
Published: June 25, 2014 12:30 IST | Updated: June 23, 2014 15:05 IST The victims of the Muzaffarnagar riots still live in abysmal conditions in relief camps with no hope of justice or rehabilitation. By AJOY ASHIRWAD MAHAPRASHASTA IN Shamli… Continue Reading →
Vol – XLIX No. 25, June 21, 2014 | Ravi Nair The Supreme Court judgment in the Akshardham temple attack case has acquitted six innocent men who were tortured and then made to suffer imprisonment. The Supreme Court has come down… Continue Reading →
Saurav Datta Caste-blind judiciary fails Dalit victims as number of sex attacks are reported against former untouchables. Twenty two years ago, in Bhateri village in the western Indian state of Rajasthan, Bhanwari Devi was gang-raped by five men. The reason… Continue Reading →
Fozia Yasin,TNN | Jun 1, 2014, 06.10 AM IST NEW DELHI: The rape and murder of the two teenage girls in Uttar Pradesh’s Badaun district last Wednesday sent shockwaves across the country, and also threw into focus four rape survivors from Bhagana… Continue Reading →
Written by Utkarsh Anand | New Delhi | May 16, 2014 3:01 pm Summary Mohd Hanif Shaikh, Abdullamiya Yasinmiya Kadri amd two others were sentenced to jail terms varying between 10 years to life imprisonment. In a major setback to the… Continue Reading →
Photo: Hannah McNeish/IRIN South Sudan’s ongoing violence puts women at risk of sexual and gender based violence. JUBA, 13 May 2014 (IRIN) – Sexual and gender-based violence might not be a new phenomenon in South Sudan, but the current crisis… Continue Reading →
By SANJAY AUSTA Wed Apr 16, 2014 Has Gujarat , the most western lying Indian state finally fallen off India’s map to sit at the high table of developed nations in the West? It would seem so if you go… Continue Reading →
There was no one to answer the survivors’ doubts and fears and be with them in their moments of anxiety and panic. No one to offer emotional, social, medical and legal support while they endured the gruelling criminal trial…. Continue Reading →
S. VIJAY KUMAR More than a decade ago, a differently-abled girl was allegedly raped by a youth. The deaf and dumb girl of Dharmapuri managed to give an account of the incident to her family and even identified the suspect…. Continue Reading →