-The Indian Express Data on hate crime needs to be collected through recording bias indicators, group identity of victims and the nature of violence. In the midst of a perceptible rise in cases of lynching and mob violence against religious and caste minorities, the Supreme Court has called for firm action to prevent, remedy and punish these horrific acts. On July 17, the Court issued guidelines and also recommended that Parliament enact...
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On crime against women, bad questions, poor answers -Rukmini S
-The Indian Express The data in India is flawed, marked by both under- and over-reporting. The question is not whether India’s women are safe, but whether they are free Very rarely does data become a political hot-button issue in India, dominating the shouty nightly news debates and the daily Twitter sniping. Earlier this month, it was about data on the status of women, following an international survey that found India to be...
More »New Save the Children report reveals insecurity of teenage girls from the outside world, but are our homes safe enough?
Released in May this year, a study by Save the Children has found that if you are an adolescent girl living in the country, then you are most likely to be afraid about being harassed outside your homes viz. in public places. Entitled WINGS 2018 - World of India's Girls: A study on the perception of girls’ safety in public spaces, the study shows that nearly one-third of teenage girls surveyed...
More »Murderous mob -- 9 states, 27 killings, one year: And a pattern to the lynchings -Rashmi Rajput, Abhishek Saha, Sweety Kumari, Sreenivas Janyala, Johnson TA, Arun Janardhanan, Prashant Pandey, and Dipankar Ghose
-The Indian Express Murderous mob — 9 states: The Indian Express investigates the circumstances of each death related to child-lifting rumours to find a common plot: helpless police, migrant victims. Bengaluru, Chennai, Dhule, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Raipur, Ranchi: Being an outsider, moving after sunset, taking an unfamiliar road, stopping to ask for directions, even offering a chocolate to a child on the way. This is what led to the killing of 27 people...
More »Sexual exploitation of minors at Bihar shelter: District officer among 10 arrested
-The Indian Express Muzaffarpur SSP Harpreet Kaur confirmed that DCPO Ravi Raushan was arrested from his private residence on Sunday evening after some of the victims identified him as one of the accused on the basis of his photograph. Patna: Muzaffarpur district child protection officer (DCPO) has been arrested in connection with sexual exploitation of minors living in a shelter home run by NGO Seva Sankalp Evam Vikas Samiti. All 44 girls...
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