-The Hindu A statistically faulty focus on rape has led to a misdiagnosis and a worsening of India's real problem: women's autonomy The recently reported rape of a young woman in a taxi in Delhi has brought back attention to India's sexual violence problem. The spotlight has been on the country since the horrific rape of a young woman aboard a bus in December 2012, an attack that killed her. The beginning...
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About men -Vani S Kulkarni, Manoj K Pandey & Raghav Gaiha
-The Indian Express Although the prevalence of sexual violence in India is the lowest in the world (8.5 per cent in 2013), it affects 27.5 million women in the country. Rapes reported to the police as sexual violence surged from 39 per day to 93 per day in 2013. In Uttar Pradesh alone, five rapes occurred in 36 hours. Even these are underestimations, for two reasons. One is the exclusion of...
More »All Family Planning Should Be Voluntary, Safe and Fully Informed -Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin
-IPS News Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin is the Executive Director of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund UNITED NATIONS: The tragic deaths and injuries of women following sterilisation in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh have sparked global media coverage and public concern and outrage. Now we must ensure that such a tragedy never occurs again. The women underwent surgery went with the best intentions - hoping they were doing the right thing for themselves and...
More »For Indian men, controlling women is masculine: study
-PTI A new study has explored how the average Indian male interprets the idea of 'masculinity' and how that shapes his interactions with women. The study, 'Masculinity, Intimate Partner Violence and Son Preference in India' by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the International Centre for Research on Women (ICRW), shows a very high prevalence of violence against women in relationsips across many states in the country. Most of the 9,205 men...
More »Son preference continues in India -Smriti Kak Ramachandran
-The Hindu Two out of five men in many States across the country believe that women should neither be seen nor heard. One in three men didn't allow their wives to wear clothes of their choice and 75 per cent expected their partners to agree to have sex. These findings are part of a study ‘Masculinity, Intimate Partner Violence and Son Preference in India' carried out in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan,...
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