Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by MARIK Soma
As a historian, I know that actions very often have highly unintended consequences. Historical turning points occur, not because deep planning willed them into existence, but rather due the intersection of many cross-currents. So it is today. Activists of our generation have been campaigning for (…)
, by MARIK Soma
This contribution is based on several speeches delivered and discussions held with various groups in late December 2012 and early January 2013. As a result, it bears the imprint of a specific discussion and debate, though some attempts have been made to situate it in a wider context. (…)
, by WSS
Addressing the Chief Minister of Delhi, Women Against Sexual Violence and State Repression (WSS), strongly condemned the racial profiling, sexual violence and vigilantism by AAP against the Ugandan women and have demanded Somnath Bharti’s resignation; judicial probe to identify the perpetrators (…)
, by First Post, PTI
India: SP leader Azmi blames Delhi gangrape on Western culture
Mumbai: Joining a long list of leaders who have made controversial remarks following the Delhi gangrape incident, Samajwadi Party leader Abu Azmi today said women should not go out with men other than relatives and agreed with RSS (…)
, by SINGH Mahim Pratap
Spiritual leader Asaram Bapu landed himself in a controversy following his remarks about the Delhi gang-rape victim at an event on Monday.
Speaking at an event in Tonk, about 90 km from Jaipur, Asaram Bapu reportedly said the girl was equally at fault for getting raped and could have avoided (…)
, by IBN Live
New Delhi: In an embarrassment for the Bharatiya Janata Party, a Madhya Pradesh Cabinet minister has stirred more controversy by making an irresponsible remark. He suggested that if women breach their moral limits, they ask for punishment.
"Ek hi shabd hai - Maryada. Maryada ka ulanghan hota (…)
The RSS supremo Mohan Bhagwat (or to call him out in the way he is referred to in the Sangh – Sarsanghchalak Param Pujya Shri Mohan-ji Bhagwat-ji) has now joined the pavilion of eminent Bharatiya moustachioed misogynists. In a breathtakingly revealing statement, he has told us that rapes happen (…)
, by SRIVASTAVA Sanjay
Sexual crimes derive from social attitudes and no serious effort at lessening their occurrence can ever depend upon cosmetic measures such as greater policing and calls for the death penalty. This is not to deny either the legitimacy of the anger over the terrible event that led to the recent (…)
, by MARIK Soma
The Delhi gang rape is gruesome. But it does not stand alone. There were 22,000 rapes reported in 2010, and this implies at least 100,000 unreported cases. In the National capital, Delhi, there were around 570 cases reported. West Bengal has about 9,000 cases of rape, where the matter had not (…)
, by Radical Socialist (India)
Solidarity with the protesters in Delhi.
Down with government violence and misleading information
Punish every rapist and all those who support or abet rape
There have been sustained protests in Delhi against the rape of a young woman of 23 in a bus, and the callous attitude of police, (…)
, by ASHRAF Ajaz
Why don’t we seek justice for raped Dalit, Kashmiri and Northeastern women in the way we do for the horrific gangrape survivor?
Among the most frightening aspects of power is the ability of its wielder to create a veritable hierarchy of sorrow, influencing people to feel outraged at a tragedy (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
STATEMENT BY WOMEN’S AND PROGRESSIVE GROUPS AND INDIVIDUALS CONDEMNING SEXUAL VIOLENCE AND OPPOSING DEATH PENALTY
On 16 December, 2012, a 23-year old woman and her friend hailed a bus at a crossing in South Delhi. In the bus, they were both brutally attacked by a group of men who claimed to be (…)
, by KRISHNAN Kavita
This is the cover story of the forthcoming January 2013 issue of Liberation, magazine of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation. It is posted at Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal with Kavita Krishan’s permission. Kavita Krisnan is secretary of the All India (…)
, by GHOSAL Shonali
Dhanbad girl Sonali Mukherjee’s hopes for a career in teaching were snuffed out when three men hurled acid at her resulting in 72 percent burns. In Delhi for treatment, the braveheart finds it difficult to meet mounting medical expenses
Life can change overnight.
Ask Sonali Mukherjee, for (…)
, by PATEL Vibhuti
In Mumbai, 18 women’s rights organizations had gathered on Sat 22nd of December 2012 to protest at the same spot where a young woman was slashed with a sickle by a man who mistook her for his wife! It was also in solidarity with the young woman fighting for her life in Delhi.
The participating (…)
, by KRISHNAN Kavita
Following the bestial sexual attack on a 23-year-old paramedical student in Delhi, the capital, along with other cities across the country, has seen numerous protests demanding justice not just for the survivor, but better laws and stringent action against sexual offenders per se. When on (…)
, by CHAUDHURY Shoma
Why did it need an incident so unspeakably brutal to trigger our outrage?
The harsh truth is rape is not deviant in India; it is rampant, almost culturally sanctioned.
THE SURGING outrage at the gangrape of a paramedic in New Delhi this week is welcome and cathartic. But it is also (…)
, by PATEL Vibhuti
Rights of Adolescent Girls in India: A critical Look at Laws and Policies, By Adv. Saumya Uma, Vacha Publications, Mumbai, 2012), a book authored by Adv. Saumya Uma, Price: Rs. 300/-, pages-xvii +374. (Contact Email: vachamail gmail.com)
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Rights of Adolescent Girls in (…)
, by TELTUMBDE Anand
In the wake of 19 cases of gang-rapes of dalit girls in Haryana in just one month, and the utter callousness with which the state government has dealt with such criminality, the time has come for dalits to embrace class unity in the struggle for liberation.
After the Manesar incident that (…)
, by PRASAD Archana
ON August 29, 2012 the Washington Post published Narendra Modi’s now famous statement that the increasing rates of malnutrition in Gujarat could be attributed to the beauty conscious middle class girls and dieting habits. He also reiterated that he “would not apologise for the Gujarat violence (…)
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