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Tackle root causes of violence against women, UN rapporteur

Team FI — Fri, 03 May 2013 17:28:08 +0000

Report of Rashida Manjoo, Special Rapporteur for the United Nations urges India to end the culture of impunity and the inequality and discrimination so as to eliminate violence against women in India By Team FI Rashida Manjoo, Special Rapporteur for the United Nation for violence against women, its causes and consequences, in the conclusive statement

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Activist gets rape threat while discussing anti-rape protest online

Team FI — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 05:49:01 +0000

Activist abused and threatened with rape on Rediff.com live chat that was organised to discuss anti-rape protest By Team FI Social activist Kavita Krishnan has demanded a public apology from the website Rediff.com in regard to the degrading and violent messages addressed to her during a chat organised by the news portal. Krishnan, Secretary, All

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Justice J.S.Verma: In memoriam

Team FI — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 16:56:24 +0000

To pay tribute to the man who left a legacy of justice is to promise to keep the fight ongoing By Farah Naqvi On April 22, 2013, India lost a man who stood taller than others. In a lifetime of work he unwaveringly upheld the values of our Constitution and deployed them to uphold rights

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Justice Verma: A judge who fought for women’s rights

Team FI — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 06:03:13 +0000

With the sad demise of Justice Verma, the Indian women’s movement has lost one of its most noble defenders By Team FI Justice J S Verma, the much respected jurist who died of multiple organ failure on Monday at the age of 80, was cremated yesterday with state honour in New Delhi. He was the

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Report to UN calls Indian juvenile homes “hell holes”

Team FI — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 08:04:48 +0000

Report on child rape says sexual offences against children in India have reached an epidemic proportion with 336% increase in past decade By Team FI India saw an alarming increase of 336% in child rape cases from 2001 to 2011 – from 2,113 recorded cases in 2001, to a startling figure of 7,112 cases in

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Delhi rape case: Women’s groups organise morcha

Team FI — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 06:12:55 +0000

Women’s and progressive groups will take out a morcha today in New Delhi to protest against the increasing violence against women and the inaction of the police personnel in the reported cases of violence By Team FI In a collective action, women’s and progressive groups in Delhi have organised a protest march against the increasing

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Protest mount in Delhi over child rape

Team FI — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 16:22:16 +0000

By Team FI Protests and anger are mounting in Delhi over the brutal rape of 5- year- old girl in Delhi last week. Anti-rape protesters stormed the barricades outside the residences of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi. The police had to forcefully remove protesters from outside the police headquarters. The anger

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Breaking the Binary: Questioning assigned gender identities

Team FI — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 13:11:16 +0000

Mumbai group to release report of its study that challenges assumed notions of gender, sexuality and sex in five cities – Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Bangalore and Thrissur By Team FI LABIA, a queer feminist lesbian bi-sexual transgender collective in Mumbai is all set to release its much waited research project – Breaking the Binary –

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Women journos slam Telugu TV channels’ moral policing

Team FI — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 09:33:31 +0000

Sexual harassment and public defamation of women law students by news channels in Hyderabad comes under strong protest from women journalists across India By Team FI Network of Women in Media, India, (NWMI) has strongly condemned the misogynist portrayal, by certain television channels, of the female law students who attended a party in Hyderabad on

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India’s Supreme Court rejects Novartis patent claim

Team FI — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 11:58:22 +0000

Health rights activists hail judgment as a major victory for the world wide campaign for affordable medicines By Team FI In a landmark judgment the Supreme Court of India rejected Novartis AG’s plea to patent its cancer drug, Glivec. The drug was developed in the 1990s and is considered beneficial for treating chronic myeloid leukemia

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