All four men found guilty in Delhi gang-rape trial | World.
Men convicted for roles in gang-rape and murder of woman likely to face death sentence but are expected to appeal.. They then tricked the victim and her friend into boarding the bus and assaulted them shortly afterwards... A police officer who was gang raped three weeks ago as she escorted her sisters body to be cremated says the national outrage over the fatal sexual assault of a student in December has done little to change the lives of most Indian women.
Indian woman allegedly raped by Uber driver to sue company in US
A high-profile American lawyer on Friday said he has been hired to sue taxi-hailing firm Uber in US courts on behalf of an Indian woman allegedly raped by one of its drivers in New Delhi. Douglas Wigdor. We will use all of our resources to.
Newslaundry ��� Media Debates and The Delhi Rape
Justice for Rape. 2012 has left me bruised both on personal and collective level. I think there is a consensus that the event that affected us most was the brutal gangrape in the capital. As I pen this column the protests are still in progress.. Even in the UK, the conviction rate hovers around 25 per cent.. These are the guys who would pinch a girls bottom in the bus, touch them inappropriately, whistle at them, and make their life in Delhi diificult, in more than one ways.
Report: Father of India rape victim wants her name made.
28 in a Singapore hospital, two weeks after a gang rape on a bus in New Delhi that ignited street protests across India and prompted promises from the government for tougher punishments for offenders. We want... Most rapes are NOT reported because the girls know they will be blamed not only from their own society but their own family.. India has done more for its lower castes, than the USA has done for blacks, who have also suffered centuries of oppression.
Anti-Rape Underwear in India, condoms with teeth in South.
I wish no woman and girl ever had to do that, and I hope some day we will see a world where the responsibility of not being raped is not placed on women and girls any more. I wish to see a world where rape. than the attempted rape. On the other hand, with cases like the Delhi bus rape and the assault on a 17-year old girl in South Africa that also led to her death, would these devices possibly given these young women a chance of getting out of the situation alive?
The man who killed his daughters rapist
The case of an Indian man who tortured and killed his daughters alleged rapist has shocked the country - but many are hailing him as a hero. The BBCs Geeta Pandey met the family. When a 36-year-old Delhi father of six told his wife last Friday that.
DELHI GANG RAPE: HORRIFIC DETAILS and thoughts
On 16 December 2012, the 23 year old girl was brutally raped by six men (read monsters, its a sin to call them men) in a moving bus with tinted glass and heavy curtains that crossed five different police check points, moved in circles.. Though I hope that the 28 year old friend would have put maximum effort, somewhere I do not feel so as being 5 years older and given the fact that physically men are stronger than women, he should have had more strength to fight��.
Delhis many problems have been ignored by all parties
The striking thing about the upcoming Delhi elections is that while there is no anti-incumbency factor because there is no incumbent as such, all the three dominant parties are wobbly to a greater or lesser extent. The BJP is facing its toughest.
Haqs Musings: Superfreakonomics on Status of Indian.
They argue that access to cable TV, not originally intended to help liberate women, has done more to improve the lives of Indian women than the many laws and government programs designed to help them. Cable television is present in.. She boarded a bus with a male friend after watching a movie at a mall, and was raped and attacked with an iron rod by the men on the bus, who the police later said had been drinking and were on a ���joy ride.��� She died Saturday��.
We are back in Delhi: Uber emails rape survivor
Douglas Wigdor said that Uber had the audacity to send an email directly to his client in which it said that it has re-entered the market in Delhi, only weeks after the tragic incident with the young woman and during the criminal trial of the Uber.
Grinning Britons leaving UK to join ISIS caught on tape
The group, which called itself the Britani Brigade Bangladeshi Bad Boys, bought tickets on low-budget carrier Thomas Cook to the Turkish resort of Antalya in October, UK-based newspaper the Daily Mail reported. The groups members. Around 30 UK.
Instead of scapegoating Uber for Delhis rape problem, the Indian government.
All unregistered internet taxi companies have been banned in Delhi, following allegations made by a female passenger that she was raped by a driver contracted to US online cab company, Uber. The incident comes not. In pictures: India in shock after.
The impact of sexual harassment goes far beyond the incident
In March 2013, I sat in the corner of a hired studio and listened as a teenage girl recounted being followed onto the bus by a man who sat down next to her and started to stroke her legs. She was sharing her story for a short documentary about young.
Delhi bus rapist: girls are more responsible for rape than boys
A decent girl wont roam around at night. A girl is more responsible for rape than a boy��� about 20 per cent of girls are good. It was 8.30pm when his victim, Jyoti Singh, a 23-year-old medical student, was attacked on a moving bus. She and a male.
Could I have prevented the Delhi rape? | SikhNet
The first news I read after waking up today was about the gang rape of a 23 year old student by 4 men in a moving bus in the capitol of India ��� New Delhi.. Just ���accidently��� hit the guy where it hurts the most (read: testicles) and blame it on the multitude of people pushing you! 5.. The argument that the law enforcement in India should be made more responsible and effective to ensure the safety of women doesnt hold much as at least I dont have much faith in it.
How can India end this tide of violence against women?
Sometimes, if a woman is earning more than her male partner then that too can be a trigger for IPV.. The police ridicule us by saying that a sex worker cannot be raped,��� she told me on the sidelines of the event, adding: ���I am angry because there is.
Indian mass anti-gang rape protests | Dear Kitty. Some blog
Authorities seal off high-security zone in New Delhi for a second day to put an end to a week of demonstrations against brutal gang rape of a woman on a moving bus. Read more: here. Gang rape victim flown to Singapore: here.. People are not asking him to discuss with every rallyist while the whole nation is indignant and angry, while tens of thousands of young girls and boys are on the streets on a justified issue of security to women he makes a mockery of.
Girl, 15, dies after family of boy who raped her set her on FIRE
Justice: An Indian girl, center, dressed as Lady Justice takes part in a candlelight vigil in New Delhi last week after police said they have arrested six suspects in a second gang rape of a bus passenger in India. Second gang. In reference to the biblical Eve, Eve teasing implies that women are responsible for the behaviour of their attackers. Rape. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2265878/Girl-15-dies-family-boy-raped-set-fire.html#ixzz2IfaGzFGp. Follow us:��.
Indian Woman files US lawsuit against Uber over alleged Delhi rape
A woman who alleges an Uber driver raped her in the Indian capital has sued the online taxi service in a U.S. court, accusing it of failing to provide passenger safety. In her lawsuit, the Indian woman accuses Uber of putting profits over safety.
Nigerians face killings, hunger in Boko Harams state
To survive under their watch you have to pretend to support them, said Andrew Miyanda, who escaped the rebels last week, walking for days to the Benue river. ���They would write Jamaatu Ahlis Sunna LiddaAwati Wal-Jihad (Boko Harams full name) on their .
India Gang Rape: Assault Shatters Familys Dreams
The sadness enveloped him as he talked of his daughter, who died after she was gang-raped in a moving bus in New Delhi in December, a case that galvanized public anger in India over sexual attacks and the inability of. The mistreatment starts early ��� with sex-selective abortions and even female infanticides that have skewed Indias gender ratio to 914 girls under age 6 for every 1,000 boys. Girls get less medical care and less education than their brothers.
Tomgram: Rebecca Solnit, The Longest War | TomDispatch
And in case you thought it ended with election 2012, in just the past few weeks yet more absurdly egregious, albeit less publicized, assaults on women have been piling up.. If youd rather talk about bus rapes than gang rapes, theres the rape of a developmentally disabled woman on a Los Angeles bus in November and the kidnapping of an autistic 16-year-old on the regional transit train system in Oakland, California -- she was raped repeatedly by her abductor��.
Indias growth story unravelling in the face of sexual violence
As each day brings more reports of sexual violence atrocities across the country, he asserts that social change is about more than obtaining swift justice for the murdered victim and the expulsion of Indian MPs who hold office despite having. Over the last two weeks, if you havent followed the story of the poor girl who was gang raped on a Delhi bus in broad daylight then youve been living under a rock.. Rape is about more than the imbalanced ratio of boys to girls.
Ched Evans: Sorry, but all rapes are not the same
The judge, Mr Justice Leonard, gave longer sentences for the burglary than the rape and said that ���the trauma suffered by the victim was not so very great���.. In such a free-for-all, what is meant by ���consensual sex��� becomes more and more blurred.
Are Indias Uber for tour guides on the right track?
If you really want to rub your face in old India then Delhis Chandni Chowk is your place. Its a sprawling labyrinth of stalls selling every possible spice, mountains of nuts, sweets and incredible street food. And when youre done eating, you can sip.
Fighting Rape Culture: Real Tips - Susan Sered
Rape in India must properly be seen in the context of femicide: The gender ratio in India is at its most unbalanced since 1947, with 1000 boys for every 927 girls. The ���missing girls��� are eliminated. In the past few weeks, ISIS has ���distributed��� to its rank and file about 300 female members of the persecuted religious minority, says the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitoring group aligned with the opposition in Syria.��� The monitors explain, ���In ISIS��.
Let women live: The global rape epidemic | The Chicago.
The night of December 16th, a 23-year-old medical student named Jyoti Singh Pandey and her male friend boarded a bus to take them home after watching Life of Pi in Delhi, Indias capital. The six men already on board the bus, including the driver, beat the girl and her friend with a metal rod for more than an hour, gang-raped the girl, and threw both victims from the vehicle onto the road. Pandey, who.. India, Jyoti Singh Pandey, Pakistan, rape, UK, violence, women��.
Rape on trial in Delhi - The Economist
Then also remind yourself that most rapes in the UK, against south asian victims, are never investigated by the police because these are not against White women. In the USA heinous rapes are not big news and no one��.
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Speaking from jail, Mukesh Singh said that women who venture out at night have themselves to blame if they attract unwanted male attention. A girl is far more responsible for rape than a boy, he said, speaking about the brutal attack against victim.
Protests are symptoms of a disease: Vishal Bhardwaj
More than a duty, it was my job to reflect the reality, as I saw it. I didnt take any sides.. Obviously, what we as a family went through is nothing compared to the tragedy of Kashmir Pandits which, I feel, is greater than even that of Kashmiri.
Grief and rage in India: making violence against women.
And on the December 21st of this year, a week after the Delhi case, a fourteen year old tribal girl was raped and killed by 3 Bengali settlers in the Rangamati hills of Bangladesh... Then there is the leader of a caste panchayat in Haryana who declared that most rapes were fabricated, anyway; the elected Member of the BJP party in Rajasthan who called for a ban on skirts as a part of school uniforms as it.. The use and abuse of honour based violence in the UK
Duke Chapel Backtracks On Muslim Call To Prayer (UPDATE)
The Adhan will be sung in Arabic, then followed by an English translation, according to a Facebook event announcing the call. ���This opportunity. It can easily be done at other private schools, with a chapel, and it would be most welcome, and build.