Tag sexual violence
The Lancet The rape and murder of a 23-year-old female physiotherapy student from Delhi—six men have been arrested for the attack, which took place on Dec 16—has rightly caused outrage and anguish across India. Immediately after her death, following treatment… Continue Reading →
7th January 2013 at 4-7pm Outside the Indian High Commission, London, WC2B 4NA WARNING: The details below of the gang rape that took place recently on 16 December might be graphic and/or upsetting for some. Please share this with your friends, colleagues, activists,… Continue Reading →
(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 →
DECEMBER 23, 2012, Kafila.org tags: Delhi rape, violence on women in India by Nivedita Menon Guest post by PRATIKSHA BAXI Delhi has tolerated intolerable forms of sexual violence on women from all backgrounds in public spaces for decades. It is a public secret that… Continue Reading →
Mobile Gender Courts: Delivering Justice in the DRC Can mobile gender courts’ swift justice tackle impunity in the DRC’s remote regions? | 30 JULY 2012 – 12:03PM | BY LILY PORTER Kamombo, South Kivu. Photograph by Radio Okapi. Since 1996, as many as500,000 people… Continue Reading →
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 →
I Dare you S.P .Ankit Garg, Rape Me Do you have the Balls ? Stripping Soni Sori in Prison. Inserting stones in her vagina and rectum Showing off your Manhood in a Prison You called her a whore,… Continue Reading →
A number of campaigns against sexual harassment endorse the stereotypes they set out to debunk By Kavita Krishnan Misguided Posters for Delhi Police’s various campaigns against sexual harassment THE STING OPERATION by TEHELKA brought to light several medieval myths that our ‘protectors’… Continue Reading →
In a desperate attempt to prevent sexual assault and teen pregnancy, Cameroonian mothers are literally ironing their daughters’ breasts with hot stones to make them less attractive. Breast ironing is not an acceptable form of pregnancy prevention or a replacement… Continue Reading →