Those torturous women
I get a lot of these myths about women. Astonishing, because women aren’t yet so rare that people can’t simply look around them and find out truths. Here goes. Women […]
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Domestic violence
Bera Murder Appeal Partly Allowed
Bera Murder Appeal Partly Allowed By Vijay Panjwani, Advocate. Thursday May 3, 2012. The murder appeal raised important issues: (i) of excessive incarceration than maximum permissible under which accused appellants
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Prostitution, sex trafficking, sexual slavery and personal autonomy
A pro-choice response to an article Taslima Nasreen wrote calling for the abolishment of prostitution: Sex Slavery Must be Abolished While Taslima Nasreen and I both share a concern for
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Debunking the “Misuse of Dowry Act” misogynist bandwagon
There is this group of men and women on the internet who seem to have a deep and abiding contempt for the Section 498A of the IPC – the Dowry
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That Silent March
Silent Marches are mushrooming everywhere. Quiet, apologetic, they don’t want to inconvenience you, they will not cause anyone any trouble, they only want to quietly say their thing and dissolve
Diyar government, a laundry list for human rights
Here are things I need done. Kindly do the needful. Quit aping the west on the dehumanization, and instead copy the concept of safe houses. You can’t do shit for
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Self immolations and the unconscious mind
Sunny Singh makes a very intriguing and perceptive observation about the Arab Spring and the rash of self-immolations that it brought. She points out that while self-immolation is known culturally
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Ideas to destroy the practice of Dowry in India
More needs to be done to reduce the risk of harm to women because of the practice of dowry. A proactive approach would go a long way toward preventing dowry related crimes.
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Dowry – The Number One Killer Of Women In India
Dowry is violence. There is a very good reason it is declared a crime. Essentially, dowry is a business deal around the marriage of two individuals. It is a widespread
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