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India’s Street Vendors Come Out of the Shadows #mustread

  By Chandrahas Choudhury Sep 27, 2013 4:32 AM GMT+0530   What Indian economic phenomenon is at once marginal, even illegal, and enormously independent and entrepreneurial? That would be the street vendor, the small capitalist of the poor, and reservoir of off-the-books… Continue Reading →

#India – How can a Doctor rape a patient,as she did not scream ? #Mumbai #Vaw

Mathura too did not scream: Forum Against Oppression of Women AUGUST 31, 2013  by FORUM AGAINST OPPRESSION OF WOMEN As a feminist collective that was formed in the aftermath of the historic Mathura rape case in 1980, in which two police… Continue Reading →

Mumbai Police Circular on Sexual Offences Against Women and Children #Vaw #mustshare

  RAHAT is a collaboration between Women and Child Development and Majlis Legal Centre to provide Socio-Legal Support to Victims Sexual Assault. In order to achieve this objective RAHAT has collaborated with Mumbai Police. One of our initiatives was to draft… Continue Reading →

#Mumbaigangrape- Rapists assaulted 4 other women including rag picker, sex worker in past 6 months

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 →

#India – Promiscuous culture or safe city? Pick one: Mumbai top cop’s faux pas #Vaw #WTFnews

Written by Tejas Mehta | Updated: August 27, 2013       Mumbai: Is dancing in pubs and dance bars or a mere kiss in public promoting a “promiscuous culture”? Satyapal Singh, the police commissioner of India‘s most cosmopolitan city, Mumbai, certainly thinks… Continue Reading →

Only 20% of Mumbai police servicing ordinary people #WTFnews

Mumbai activists decry force’s inability to ensure safety of women By Pamela Raghunath, Correspondent Published: 18:36 August 27, 2013   Mumbai: Condemning the heinous gang rape of a photojournalist and the police’s inability to ensure safety of women, a group… Continue Reading →

#India – Radical Socialist Statement on Recent Rapes

Punish Rapists without Consideration of Identity. No Double standards. No Communalisation. No death Penalty. Make Homes, Public Places and Work Places Free from Sexual Harassments   Radical Socialist Statement on Recent Rapes Despite the tall claims of the politicians, two… Continue Reading →

#Mumbaigangrape – The biggest change is that nobody is calling her a “zinda laash’ #Vaw

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 →

Eviction of homeless at Mankhurd: BMC- Police- Builder Collusion

Vipul Kumar, Facebook    August 27, Mumbai: Today at about 11:00 am in the morning 150 homeless people of Agarwari were forcefully and illegally evicted by the Brihan Mumbai Municipal Corporation from the pavement where they resided from the past… Continue Reading →

#India – #Mumbaigangrape: The algebra of infinite outrage #Vaw

In the seven-month period between Delhi gang-rape and Mumbai one, hundreds of rape cases were reported all across the country G. Sampath , Thel ivemint First Published: Tue, Aug 27 2013. 11 39 AM IST Muslim women protest against gang-rape of a… Continue Reading →

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