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#India – Assam tops 2012 list of custodial deaths in India #Prisonerights

Pranjal Baruah, TNN | Jun 15, 2013, Surprisingly, the NCRB did not record a single case of police custodial death in Assam in 2011. GUWAHATI: In a major embarrassment for the state, the National Crime Records Bureau(NCRB) figures for last year… Continue Reading →

#India – Marriage officer humiliates HC woman lawyer #Vaw #WTFnews #Womenrights

Manjari Mishra, TNN | Jun 15, 2013, 7 How can you think of getting married at this age? The officer told a shocked Nirmala, who charging him with objectionable and unwarranted conduct. JABALPUR: What has age to do with marriage? Plenty, if… Continue Reading →

#India – Farmers boycott land acquisition hearings for Chhindwara SEZ, Madhya Pradesh

Author(s): Aparna Pallavi , Down to Earth Date:Jun 14, 2013 Villagers refuse to part with land; object to individual hearings, land acquisition by dubious means Farmers and landowners protesting against land aquisition at the PWD guest house in Saunsar (Photo: Mukesh Badge)… Continue Reading →

Birth defects from Bhopal rise again #dowchemical #unioncarbide

  Charity warns of worsening situation 28 years after disaster. London :-Full page advertisements in British newspapers at the weekend claim that horrific birth defects are increasingly common in the Indian city of Bhopal, 28 years after it suffered the… Continue Reading →

#India -13 Women activists from Maitree arrested for protesting in Kolkata #Vaw #WTFnews

Protests outside Mamata‘s house over report that claims Bengal is unsafest for women Edited by Surabhi Malik (With Inputs from IANS) | Updated: June 13, 2013 Kolkata: Women activists demonstrated outside Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee‘s residence in Kolkata this morning to protest against… Continue Reading →

Probed, declared pregnant, tribal women now ostracized #Vaw #WTFnews

TNN | Jun 12, 2013, JABALPUR: A tribal panchayat has excommunicated families of nine girls from Madhya Pradesh‘s Betul district, who were found pregnant at a mass marriage event under mukhya mantri kanyadaan yojna. The girl’s were sent away from the event… Continue Reading →

#India – Violence against the state is tragic but it contains the seeds of rejection

Repression is no solution Gopal Subramanium Violence against the state is tragic but it contains the seeds of rejection. Only an inclusive approach that respects human rights can eliminate extremism Perhaps no other chain of events in the recent past… Continue Reading →

#India – 350 Tribal women forced to undergo virginity and pregnancy tests before mass marriage #WTFnews #VAW

Pheroze L. Vincent,, The Hindu Mass marriage under way at Hardoo village in Betul district of Madhya Pradesh. Photo: Special Arrangement 10 girls were found pregnant and household items they got under the Mukhyamantri Kanyadan Yojana seized Around 350 women… Continue Reading →

The unmasking of Narendra Modi #mustread

Sujata Anandan, Hindustan Times June 05, 2013 Senior BJP leader LK Advani being garlanded by Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi during his Jan Chetna Yatra at Daman and Diu of Gujarat Border in Vapi. I woke up on Monday morning to… Continue Reading →

Indian Tribal Women Rush to a Champion’s Defense #Womenrights

By Swapna Majumdar WeNews correspondent Friday, May 31, 2013 Tribal women in India are mobilizing behind a leading maternal-health advocate. Supporters say the case against Madhuri Krishnaswamy was concocted to stop her from flagging rights violations that led to 25… Continue Reading →

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