rapes in India
Rising sexual assaults on Indian college campuses
July 6, 2021
“It’s not a secret that India, and especially Delhi, is not the safest place for a woman to be, but in a college campus at least one feels that they’re in a space where they can exist without the constant fear of something terrible happening. When that is not the case, ther...
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Sex Education 101 with Dr Niveditha Manokaran
June 16, 2021
In the country where one of the most famous and oldest erotic textbooks of the world, Kama sutra was written, “sex” and everything around it still remains tabooed. While media coverage in India on any given day remains full of news of several gruesome rapes and hein...
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New Delhi police try to suppress alleged rape & murder of dalit minor
October 27, 2020
murder of dalit, Human rights activists joined in a protest by the family of a young Dalit girl that had allegedly been raped and killed in New Delhi on October 4.
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Rapes in India
December 17, 2019
Every subsequent horrific rape in India leads to calls for and often passage of newer laws to deal with the spate of crimes against women. There are enough severe laws against these, but challenges lie in poor implementation as well as a sense of lawlessness that pervades parts o...
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Six years have passed since the December 16 gang rape, but still no woman is safe in the country
December 16, 2018
Women's safety in India remains extremely poor and despite harsher laws being put in place as well as special trial courts, savage attacks against women continue to be extremely high in India, a situation worsened by low conviction rates and high pendency of cases.
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