Gender and Sexuality

Jauhar & the Politics of Distraction: How the Right and so-called liberals often complement each other

The selectiveness of medieval Muslim or medieval Rajput history in contestation is not just deliberate effort to alienate these two communities but is also a Brahmanical viewpoint that refuses to subject Peshwa or Maratha history to a similar brand of selectivity

All four accused in Hyderabad vet rape & shot dead

Hyderabad/New Delhi: The extra judicial killing took place at...

Unnao rape survivor set ablaze by accused!

She was on her way to the hearing in the case when an accused who was out on bail got together with his accomplices and set her on fire.

Sultanpur Rape Case: NHRC pulls up Uttar Pradesh police for negligence

The Commission has asked for a report from the U.P. police

Violence against women – more than just a law & order problem

Image: Denitza Tchacarova (detail)/WikimediaJaya Bachchan’s and Swati Mahiwal's outbursts,...

HRD Ministry’s response to parliamentary question highlights the lack of transgender participation in higher education

In response to an unstarred question asked in the Lok Sabha with regards to transgender participation in higher education, HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ said there are no trans students in any Indian central universities. He could only offer up empty banalities when asked about planned measures to improve the statistics.

No country for children: 35-year-old rapes, murders 8-year-old in Karnataka

The accused approached the girl near her school and lured her away with chocolates

NHRC, Delhi High Court spring into action, pull up governments on women’s safety measures, utilisation of Nirbhaya Fund

The executive has failed by not implementing policies and governments have failed to keep the executive in check as there is no monitoring of implementation being carried out. In this atmosphere, there is always room left for perpetrators of crime to dare to commit such heinous crimes as the preventive machinery in the State crumbles.

Revisiting the Justice Verma Committee report of 2013: #JusticeForRapeVictims

Had the recommendations of the report been seriously considered and implemented, the Delhi crime may have been prevented in Hyderabad.

Five Actions You Can Take To End Gender Based Violence

A few days ago, a veterinary doctor was gang-raped,...

35 year-old attempts to rape 4 year-old, paraded naked: Nagpur

He used to visit her home daily for his work as a cash collection agent

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