-DNA With 139.26% rise in rape cases as compared to last year, the national capital continues to fight with the shame of being the rape capital of India. In 2012, 433 rape cases were recorded in Delhi whereas till 15 August this year, 1,036 cases have already been registered in various police stations across the city. Similarly, cases of molestation have witnessed a rise of 495.01%. Last year, 381 cases of molestation...
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‘One in four men across Asia admit to having committed rape’-Rukmini S
-The Hindu Nearly one out of four men in a United Nations study of 10,000 men in Asia admitted to having committed a rape, a report released on Tuesday shows. Marital rape was by far the most common type of rape, followed by the rape of an intimate partner. Sexual entitlement - the "belief that men were entitled to sex regardless of consent" - was the top reason men gave for committing...
More »Do crop intensification techniques hold the key to food security?-Caspar van Vark
-The Guardian Indian farmers have seen increased yields not just in rice but also in wheat cultivation. Could SCI curb hunger in low-resource communities? Yields achieved under the system of rice intensification (SRI) have made headlines in recent years, with one farmer in India reported to have produced a record-breaking 22.4 tonnes from one hectare of land in 2011. But why stop at rice? Farmers and NGOs have found that the same...
More »Balancing the juvenile act-Aparna Viswanathan
-The Hindu Young offenders above a certain age who commit violent crimes should be prosecuted as adults On August 31, 2013, the Juvenile Justice Board (JJB) ordered that the boy who raped Nirbhaya, brutalised her with an iron rod, pulled out her intestines and then cleaned up the bus and made tea would go virtually free by sentencing him to only 28 months in a remand home as eight months of the...
More »UNICEF launches initiative to shine spotlight on ‘invisible’ violence against children
-The United Nations Violence against children often goes unseen, unheard and unreported the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said today, launching a new initiative urging the international community to speak out more forcefully against the scourge, which leaves millions of girls and boys physically and emotionally scarred every year. "In every country, in every culture, there is violence against children," said UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake. "Whenever and wherever children are harmed,...
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