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Women: Nation builders, missing from the nation’s books
An exploration of the path-breaking verdict delivered by the SC declaring “housewives as nation-builders”[1]. The author, an academic explores, academically and historically, how societies and nations have only imagined economies and valued production through narrow prisms while feminist scholars have spent decades challenging this hierarchy; the real challenge that the June 11 judgement throws is whether we are prepared for a substantive re-set and re-construct
Remove Chandramukhi Devi from NCW: Anganwadi Workers group
Group demands fast track trial of the Budaun rape and murder case, adequate compensation and a job for the victim’s family
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Alert locals caught the accused who was hiding in the same village, and handed him over to the police
NCW member blames Badaun gangrape victim!
National Commission for Women member Chandramukhi Devi said If victim had not gone out unaccompanied in the evening, ganrape, murder would not have happened; the accused temple priest is still absconding
National women organisations demand justice for anganwadi gang-rape victim
Organisations claim that police ignored the pleas of the victim’s family to lodge the FIR
Ex IAS officer claims UP govt detained him for trying to meet Badaun gangrape victim’s family
Meanwhile, there continues to be a lack of political outrage over the brutal gang-rape and murder at a temple in Uttar Pradesh
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The court, while denying bail to rape accused, held that even if he had friendly relations with the survivor, it does not give him license to have sexual relations without her consent
Woman allegedly gang raped, brutalised inside UP temple
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Mothers can’t be denied child’s custody upon entering new relationship without divorce: Allahabad HC
However, the court allowed visitation rights to the father as a father’s company is also essential for the child’s welfare
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Year after year, since the 2012 gang rape in Delhi, governments have introduced stricter punishments, especially death penalty, in response to aggravated sexual crimes. So, why do such crimes keep on increasing, and why does their nature become more horrific and inhuman?
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