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#India- The Criminal Law Ordinance on Sexual Assault – Cut, Paste and Shock #Vaw #womenrights

FEBRUARY 5, 2013 tags: Justice Verma Committee, Ordinance on sexual violence 2013 by Nivedita Menon Guest post by PRATIKSHA BAXI  Once the Criminal Law Ordinance 2013 was uploaded, circulated and read many times, an overwhelming desire to mark the ordinance to all one’s students as an… Continue Reading →

Adrienne Rich`s #Rape- but the hysteria in your voice pleases him best #poem #Vaw

Rape By Adrienne Rich The main character who the speaker is talking to first is a woman who has been sexually violated. She is a victim of a heinous and very private, embarrassing crime. The officer that she has reported… Continue Reading →

The Media must be part of the solution, not the porblme- -NWMI #Vaw #Womenrights

“   Network of Women in Media, India Calls for More Sensitive Coverage of Violence against Women  The Network of Women in Media, India, celebrating its 10th anniversary at a national convention attended by about 80 media women from across the country,… Continue Reading →

#India -Make gender sensitivity part of police appraisal #Vaw #womenrights

VijaitaSingh : New Delhi, Mon Feb 04 2013, 02:32 hrs A high-level meeting headed by Cabinet Secretary Ajit Seth last month cleared a series of measures to check cases of crime against women in the wake of the Delhi gangrape incident,… Continue Reading →

Sharmila Tagore opposes capital punishment for rape #deathpenalty #Vaw

IANS | Feb 3, 2013, 10.46 AM IST Sharmila TagoreMore Pics Veteran actress Sharmila Tagore opposed capital punishment for rape saying death is neither the ultimate punishment nor a deterrent.“I don’t think death the ultimate punishment. It is not a deterrent because when the… Continue Reading →

#India -Sexual Violence, Consumer Culture and Feminist Politics #Vaw # Sexuality

 – Rethinking the Critique of Commodification : Sreenanti Banerjee FEBRUARY 3, 2013 tags: Arundhati Roy, commodification, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Justice Verma report by Nivedita Menon, Kafila.org Guest Post by SREENANTI BANERJEE I will begin with the by now well-known interview of author and social activist Arundhati Roy, conducted… Continue Reading →

#India- The Struggle Against Rape and Sexual Assault: A View from the Left #Vaw #Rape

Soma Marik , radicalsocialist The Current Mobilizations over Rape: As a historian, I know that the actions very often have highly unintended consequences. Historical turning points occur, not because deep planning willed them into existence, but at the intersection of many… Continue Reading →

PRESS RELEASE- #India – President urged not to Sign the Ordinance by Women’s Organizations

  New Delhi, 2 Feb 2013:  We, as representatives of women’s organizations, civil society groups, and activists committed to women’s rights, convey our strong opposition to the Government’s decision to move an Ordinance on the criminal law amendments related to sexual violence. We… Continue Reading →

ATTN #delhi- Public Hearing on Women in the Unorganised (Unprotected) Sector in the Era of Globalization #Vaw #Justice

All Are Welcome ! Shahari Mahila Kaamgaar Union (affiliated to National Alliance of People’s Movements) Invites you to Public Hearing   on Women in the Unorganised (Unprotected) Sector in the Era of Globalization Date: 11th February, 2013, Monday Time: 11 AM… Continue Reading →

Information that cannot be denied to Parliament cannot be denied to you and me… but does it happen? #RTI

  VINITA DESHMUKH | 31/01/2013 12:15 PM |  , Moneylife.com Does this provision in Section 8 wherein, despite exemptions you have the right to information if it is of larger public interest being correctly interpreted by Courts? A study thinks otherwise Notwithstanding Section 8… Continue Reading →

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