Browsing Tag: Rape

The British broadcaster aired the documentary hours later. It said in a statement that it had brought forward the telecast from Sunday given the "intense level of interest."

A year after these events, where do we stand on the safety of women in India?

In this context, it might appear odd to examine any other variant of the Indian male. But it is important to do so and to do so now. To bear witness to an alternate male reality that also pervades India on a daily basis.

My name is Pavandeep Kaur. I work as a mental health professional and an advocate for human trafficking victims. I am also a survivor of sex trafficking. I was trafficked in the United States, in Orlando, FL, from ages 13-15, by a member of my family of origin and family “friends,” one of whom was involved in law enforcement.

Dal Khalsa's youth wing 'Sikh Youth of Punjab' (SYP) held a road show to express their anguish and concern over the rise of drug menace, criminalization of politics and sexual violence against women.

This is the story you don't want to hear when you ask me about India. But this is the story you need to hear.

Twenty years after the murder of Mia Zapata inspired a self-defense movement in Seattle, Indians are responding to a widely-reported gang-rape case in Delhi by joining similar violence prevention courses. Only they’re doing so over the advice of religious opponents.

This is how we ought to feel: shocked, outraged, angry. But this is what we really feel: ....

Three engineering students in India have developed lingerie that they claim has “anti-rape” features that will help women protect themselves against possible attacks.

“For 20 years, or at least 15 years, India was obsessed at least in the chattering classes with two cleavages: religion and caste,” he said. “The other cleavage, which is gender, was ignored.”

But the all-male conversation by the sea in Goa ended on a note that did not offer much hope for the thousands campaigning on the streets for an end to sexual violence.

Over 300 million people play online social games each month, and their demographic profile cuts across gender and age groups.

No, I like Eve Ensler’s way. Dance in the face of your oppressors – if rape is a non-verbal method of communicating hatred, surely dancing is the perfect protest.

The five men accused in a brutal gang rape that led to nationwide protests entered not guilty pleas on Saturday to the 13 charges filed against them.

At a time when the fast-track court in Delhi has started the trial proceedings against the five adult accused, the father of the 23-year-old student has described her as 'the hero' of her family.

Lawyers and women’s rights activists appeared delighted with a report released on Wednesday that recommended a slew of legal changes to improve women’s safety in India.

But even as India grapples with the polarizing issue, a powerful force stands in the way of any fundamental change: a police force that is corrupt, easily susceptible to political interference, heavily male and woefully understaffed.

Police said Sunday they have arrested six suspects in another gang-rape of a bus passenger in India, four weeks after a brutal attack on a student on a moving bus in the capital outraged Indians and led to calls for tougher rape laws.

‘Sikh Youth of Punjab’ (SYP) has suggested that the criminal law be amended to award the maximum punishment of full life imprisonment without parole to rapists.

A pause could help in seeing our own contribution to the culture of gender violence: when we laugh off our boy’s exploits for being such a ‘Casanova’ or ‘stud,’ while we pride ourselves in curtailing our girl’s movements and dreams.

We are all passive victims of social indoctrination. Society dictates our actions and thought processes yet convinces us they are ours. Every individual is subjected to this initial propaganda – ....

That girl, the one without the name. The one just like us. The one whose battered body stood for all the anonymous women in this country whose rapes and deaths are a footnote in the left-hand column of the newspaper.

It's no comment by a social activist or enraged youth venting anger over Nirbhaya's plight. The comment was part of recent discourses by said Punjabi ballad singer Pushpinder Kaur in gurudwaras in Punjab and Delhi.

It brought on all the emotions of shame and disgust of being born in such a city which is now rather infamous as the Rape Capital.

In May, the home affairs select committee advised that forced marriage should become a criminal offence. And when critics complain that few survivors will be willing to prosecute their families, Sanghera points to the leaps made in prosecuting domestic violence, and suggests victimless prosecutions...

A study by US scientists has concluded that an average of 48 women and girls are raped every hour in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The study, in the American Journal of Public Health, found that 400,000 females aged 15-49 were raped over a 12-month period in 2006 and 2007.

Dr. Sonnet Ehlers was on call one night four decades ago when a devastated rape victim walked in. Her eyes were lifeless; she was like a breathing corpse. "She looked at me and said, 'If only I had teeth down there,'"

Afghanistan's president, Hamid Karzai, came under intense western pressure yesterday to scrap a new law that the UN said legalised rape within marriage and severely limited the rights of women.

In a massive blow for women’s rights, the new Shia Family Law negates the need for sexual consent between married couples, tacitly approves child marriage and restricts a woman’s right to leave the home.