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Sun news reader suspended after sexual harassment plaint #Vaw #WTFnews

By Express News Service – CHENNAI 30 March 2013 A woman news reader, who recently filed a sexual harassment complaint with police against the news editor of a private television channel, has been suspended from service along with her fiance…. Continue Reading →

Monsanto Bullies Small Farmers Over Planting Harvested GMO Seeds

by Puck Lo, CorpWatch Blog March 26th, 2013 “Seed Giants vs. U.S. Farmers.” New report by Center for Food Safety. Does Monsanto own all future generations of genetically modified seeds that it sells? The Missouri-based agribusiness giant wants farmers to pay a… Continue Reading →

#India -SC sets aside 2009 ruling, says kicking daughter-in-law is not Cruel #goodnews #Vaw

NEW DELHI: Four years after it shocked women by ruling that kicking a daughter-in-law was not an act of cruelty as defined under Section 498A of Indian Penal Code, the Supreme Court on Thursday erased it from court records. Allowing… Continue Reading →

Attn Bangalore- Public Talk by Bhanwari Devi #Gangrape #Vaw #sexualharassment

Dear All, The Alternative Law Forum invites you to a talk by Bhanwari Devi.The talk will focus specifically on her battle for justice in the courts after she was gang-raped in 1992. The attack on her and her husband was… Continue Reading →

#India- And Justice for the ‘Suryanelli Girl’ #Rape #Vaw

Sexually assaulted for 40 days continuously, by 42 men: After 17 long years, will this epic tale of injustice ever end? Arathi PM Delhi/Kasaragod (Kerala), Hardnews   The national capital witnessed unparalleled protests for gender justice and sexual violence against women. The… Continue Reading →

March 3-International Sex Workers Rights Day- demand for decriminalisation of Sex work #Vaw #Womenrights

March 3, 2013,  Kamayani Bali Mahabal The 3rd of March is International Sex Worker Rights Day. The day originated in 2001 when over 25,000 sex workers gathered in India for a sex worker festival. The organizers, Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee,… Continue Reading →

Eleven years of carnage: Gujarat still needs focus on social harmony

By Sayed Isthiyakh2/28/13   Eleven years on, victims of the infamous Gujarat carnage are still awaiting justice. They are still denied of basic rights in their own homeland and forced to live in an alienated state, with 16,000-18,000 displaced persons without… Continue Reading →

Labour MP John McDonnell urges India to end the #deathpenalty #humanrights

ELIZABETH BARRETT , TIM SCULTHORPE THURSDAY 28 FEBRUARY 2013, The Independent The British Government should use “every mechanism of communication” to urge India to end the death penalty, a Labour MP has said. John McDonnell said Britain was “uniquely placed” with its… Continue Reading →

#Deathpenalty cannot be fairly implemented in the US. Is India different?

Martha C. Nussbaum, The Indian Express 28 February 2013 The execution of Afzal Guru on February 9 reopened the question of India’s continuing attachment to capital punishment. Like relatively few large industrial democracies, India and the US continue to practise and… Continue Reading →

#Mumbai- Gay man faces cops’ chin music #homophobia

Published: Monday, Feb 25, 2013, 10:30 IST Place: Mumbai | Agency: DNA     In a shocking homophobic act, a youth was set upon and his chin broken at Vasai Road railway station around midnight on Friday. When DNA visited the victim… Continue Reading →

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