Contemplating suicide
Suicide is a taboo subject for conversation. Particularly what makes a person want to commit suicide or what to say in the face of their pain.
Marriage
Supreme Court guidelines for natural sex
Considering today’s Supreme Court verdict on Section 377 that criminalizes “carnal acts against the order of nature”, there is a lot of confusion on what exactly is allowed and what is not. Here is a quick primer: You can still marry kids, as long as they are not of the same sex. Marital rape continues …
Report of Workshop on Preventing Child Marriage in Gujarat
Workshop on Prevention of Child Marriage was held on 8th and 9th November, 2012, at Greenwood Resort, S.G. Highway Ahmedabad. This workshop was organized by the Department of Social Justice and Empowerment, Gandhinagar, and UNICEF Gujarat. Mr. R.S. Patel, Director of Social Justice and Empowerment Department and CEO of Gujarat State Child Protection Society and …
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Marriage & Right To Rape: What Are Our Prospects?
Guest post by @PowercutIn PART A: Against Women Who Accept Slavery (Written Few Days Back in Frustration) NOTE: This may hurt many. I don’t intend to say all women are same but some of them are exceptional. And this note is all about those exceptional women – not to target entire womanhood as I know there …
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Open Letter to Chief Minister of Delhi, Mrs. Sheila Dixit
Dear Mrs Dixit, I have read your comments on the Delhi gangrape. I applaud your honesty in admitting failure, in admitting the dangerous condition of Delhi for women and your determination that there must be change. In a more cynical mood, I think that it is easy for you to make these admissions considering that …
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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 women unless you can offer those in trouble a safe place to stay. Have special courts for women’s rights abuse. Setting them up will be …
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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 practice, and feared so much by parents of girls, that girls spend entire lives restricted until marriage in order to avoid anything driving the price …
Rajasthan HC takes Rajasthan back two centuries
Remember the stories of Rajasthan as the land of valor, where honor is more important than life? Well… that still isn’t too far from the truth. To date, women and men without power suffer at the hands of those with power. This horrifying email from a reader shares some of the environment growing up in an “honorable” …
Naina Singh Case Update
In Naina Singh’s Case What is Now transpiring after yesterday after going through all the papers and records. Thats the mother, father filed a complaint before the SSP Gaziabad regarding the suspicious death of her daughter Naina Singh. They doubted the death of naina Singh on the cause of TB and said it was a …