16 Days of Activism
Sydney Morning Herald columnist - Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Morning Herald columnist
Sydney Morning Herald
In the week before the Cronulla riot, Jones described the young Muslim men who for years had been sexually harassing women on the beach as ''vermin'' and ''mongrels'' who ''rape and pillage''. That was the context of his comments, a context which ...
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Thailand: What has hair got to do with children's rights? - Asian Correspondent
Asian Correspondent
Thailand: What has hair got to do with children's rights?
Asian Correspondent
Others see order and discipline necessary to carry on by the new generation, a fine and unique cultural tradition worthy of preserving on the young heads, or a shield against evils always lurking and ready to harm vulnerable youth. Still others see ...
Demand for speedy trial and higher conviction rate in sexual assault cases - South Asia Mail
Demand for speedy trial and higher conviction rate in sexual assault cases
South Asia Mail
Demand for speedy trial and higher conviction rate in sexual assault cases. Back To Main Health. ALKA PANDE (CNS): While Indians are out on the streets demanding a severe law against rape after the shameful incident in Delhi, another debate has got ...
Lady injustice - Daily News & Analysis
Lady injustice
Daily News & Analysis
As our politicians, our religious leaders, our police force, open their mouths to reveal their deep-rooted biases, their nightmarish belief that women are in some way to blame for sexual violence, can we look to our judiciary for progressive, pro-women ...
Married to a rapist - Daily News & Analysis
Daily News & Analysis
Married to a rapist
Daily News & Analysis
According to the UN Population Fund, over two-thirds of married women in India between the ages of 15 and 49 have been raped or forced to provide sex, regardless of their socio-economic positions. Across the globe, one in ... We argued, more physical ...
Agenda: Harsh punishment: Solution to curb rape? - Himalayan Times
Agenda: Harsh punishment: Solution to curb rape?
Himalayan Times
... violence against women lately. One of the main reasons behind this is the lack of fear of punishment among offenders as they tend to think and act like they are above the law. ... But, we just sit and watch like an impotent whenever it comes to ...
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Laws are adequate but... - Deccan Herald
Laws are adequate but...
Deccan Herald
On the direction of the Supreme Court, way back in 1999 the Law Commission had recommended replacing “rape” with “sexual assault” in the Indian Penal Code and making it gender neutral – a debate that is raging now post 16/12 barbaric gang-rape and ...
'Sexual assault must not be made gender neutral' - The Asian Age
Hindustan Times
'Sexual assault must not be made gender neutral'
The Asian Age
... challenging the mindset that accepts violence against women as normal. It has taken years to get something as basic as this understood, that rape is not a sexual act but an act of sexual violence. ... The reluctance to declare marital rape as a ...
Laws are adequate but...Deccan Herald
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Fast track courts not enough - Kashmir Times
Fast track courts not enough
Kashmir Times
Added to this the remoteness of many of the hilly rural areas of the state, where there is poor access to legal and health institutions, would make all assessments of the intensity of rapes wrong. The state government ... Third, there is need to ...
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Argentina: Kidnapping and forced prostitution verdict causes uproar - Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal
Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal
Argentina: Kidnapping and forced prostitution verdict causes uproar
Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal
The case has been in the newspapers for weeks, highlighting the horrendous situation of thousands of women who have been kidnapped at a young age and forced to live the life of a sex slave, locked up, bashed and terrified into submission, in order to ...
