-The Hindustan Times People in rural India too are killing their unborn daughters, pulling down the child sex ratio across the country to its lowest since 1961 but the general sex ratio has moved up 10 points to 943 females for 1000 males. The sex ratio in the 0-6 age group brings out the recent changes in the attitude and outlook towards the girl child and indicates the future trend of sex...
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The problem with porn -Mrinal Pande
-The Indian Express Can pornography be given free play when the state remains an integral expression of male power? There are many things we need to know that we wish we did not have to. The existence of domestic violence against women and children is one of them. The use of pornography as a tool for learning and justifying such brutal behaviour, is another. We have lived in denial of links between...
More »No country for women -Rasheeda Bhagat
-The Hindu Business Line While violence against women continues unabated in India, our crime investigation and justice systems offer no comfort. The Capital has erupted once again over the gruesome kidnapping and rape of a five-year-old girl child. This time, the protests are more political with the presence of volunteers from organisations such as the Aam Aadmi Party, the ABVP, etc. But matters have come to such a head vis-à-vis the gender...
More »Sexual harassment at Supreme Court: Apex court to consider draft rules
-PTI The Supreme Court today agreed to constitute a committee headed by an eminent jurist to finalise the draft rules for dealing with sexual harassment complaints of women, including lady lawyers, working at the apex court. A bench, headed by Chief Justice Altamas Kabir, said the name of the chairman of the Committee, which will also go into various other issues raised in the report prepared on its order, would be decided...
More »Child rape: AAP activists protest outside PM's residence
-PTI A group of Aam Aadmi Party activists on Sunday tried to stage a protest demanding removal of Delhi Police commissioner Neeraj Kumar outside Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's residence and were detained. The activists reached Singh's 7 Race Course Road residence and tried to break the barricades to enter the high-security premises as their party served an "ultimatum" to the government to remove Kumar by this evening. Around 5pm, the activists tried to...
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