-Associated Press London: In the first major global review of Violence against women, a series of reports released Thursday found that about a third of women have been physically or sexually assaulted by a former or current partner. The head of the World Health Organization, Dr. Margaret Chan, called it "a global health problem of epidemic proportions," and other experts said screening for domestic Violence should be added to all levels of...
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More than a third of all women affected by physical or sexual Violence –UN report
-The United Nations More than a third of women worldwide are affected by physical or sexual Violence, many at the hands of an intimate partner, according to a new United Nations report that offers guidelines to help countries respond to this global epidemic. The report, Global and regional estimates of Violence against women: Prevalence and health effects of intimate partner Violence and non-partner sexual Violence, represents the first systematic study of global...
More »Working class of India, untie from nanny state
-The Economic Times Over the last decade the UPA government has tried to reduce poverty by legislating a regime of rights accompanied by the national rural employment guarantee (NREG) programme -spending Rs 1,70,000 crore on this strategy. This strategy would have been fine if the transformation of India from a strong currency, high growth and low inflation economy to aweak currency, low growth and high inflation economy had been accompanied by a...
More »Tired of hiding, Park Street 'rape victim' reveals identity, urges women to speak up
-The Indian Express Kolkata: Nearly 15 months after she was allegedly raped by five men after she stepped out of a city hotel and accepted a lift in their car, the 38-year-old woman known as the Park Street rape victim has decided to make her identity public. "I have been a rape victim, a rape survivor. Why should I be ashamed and hide my face? The criminals who raped me should hide...
More »India sets up elaborate system to tap phone calls, e-mail
-Reuters India has launched a wide-ranging surveillance programme that will give its security agencies and even income tax officials the ability to tap directly into e-mails and phone calls without oversight by courts or parliament, several sources said. The expanded surveillance in the world's most populous democracy, which the government says will help safeguard national security, has alarmed privacy advocates at a time when allegations of massive US digital snooping beyond American...
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