-The Times of India NEW DELHI: India is often dubbed as the hub of human trafficking in Asia, especially those of children and young women for slavery and prostitution. Now for the first time, the government is bringing together all states, enforcement and intelligence agencies, paramilitary forces engaged in border areas in the eastern region, NGOs and other stakeholders to discuss a solution to end the menace. Over 600 officers from Centre/states...
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Child marriage in the time of #selfiewithdaughter -Manoj Mitta
-The Times of India In all the buzz about Narendra Modi's promotion of #selfiewithdaughter, what seems to have been overlooked is one bar baric form of discrimination that millions of daughters continue to suffer in this day and age. It's child marriage, which affects the upbringing of daughters and pushes them into situations long before they are physically and mentally capable of handling them. The country has displayed few signs of...
More »Rapes, women’s abductions in Mumbai rise sharply this year -V Narayan
-The Times of India MUMBAI: A statistical study of crime in Mumbai in the first three months of 2015 shows that abductions of women rose more than one-and-a-half times (165%) over the same period last year. The response to the right to information (RTI) query also revealed that cases of rapes increased by 43%, although the number of gang-rape cases dropped from seven to four. The data sought by activist Chetan Kothari...
More »Crimes against women, children on the rise in Delhi, says report -Bindu Shajan Perappadan
-The Hindu A recent report released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) indicate that there has been a significant rise in the number of registered cases of crimes against women and children in Delhi/NCR. Sample this: the number of rape cases has seen a spurt from 706 in 2012 to more than double at 1,636 last year, while cases of assault on women with intent to outrage her modesty have spiked...
More »Most crimes against women take place at homes: Report -Mahendra Singh
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Women seem to be most unsafe in their homes while the conviction rate in crimes against women remains very low, a government study has found. Cruelty by husband and relatives continue to have the highest share (38%) of crimes against women, followed by 'assault on women with intent to outrage her modesty' (23%), Kidnapping and abduction (17%) and rape (11%). In a chapter on social obstacles in...
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