Showing posts with label sexual assault. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sexual assault. Show all posts

Saturday, 7 December 2013

Why is rape in Goa different from rape in Muzaffarnagar? asks Saeed Naqvi

New Age, 8 December 0213

Why is rape in Goa different from rape in Muzaffarnagar?


In Tarun’s case, there is that uncertainty as to what really happened. Here is rape with as many witnesses as can fill a court of law. Efforts to administer justice in the case of an alleged rape in the lift of a five-star Goa hotel, contrasted sharply with gross inaction in Muzaffarnagar. The star-struck media

Saturday, 12 October 2013

India should rehabilitate and support victims of sexual assault in Muzaffarnagar communal violence says Human Rights Watch

[Links to human rights watch statement on Muzaffarnagar communal violence; They also have a translation in heavily sankritised Hindi that many ordinary mortals hardly understand]

India: In Aftermath of Riots, Support Sexual Assault Victims
Victims Fear Reprisals; Authorities Need to Map Relief and Rehabilitation Plan
October 7, 2013 - Human rights Watch
http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/10/07/

Monday, 7 October 2013

India: NY Times Blog report on cases of sexual violence against women during the rioting in Muzaffarnagar, UP

India Ink / September 30, 2013, 10:23
A Village in Muzaffarnagar Recounts Rapes and Murder
By PAMPOSH RAINA

A burned room inside a house in Lisarh village of Muzaffarnagar district, Uttar Pradesh.

KANDHLA and LISARH, Uttar Pradesh—More than three weeks after deadly sectarian violence broke out in the Muzaffarnagar district of the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, cases of sexual violence

Sunday, 1 September 2013

India: The Advantages of Being Asaram Bapu

From: India Ink / NY Times, August 30, 2013
The Advantages of Being Asaram Bapu
By SNIGDHA POONAM
Strdel/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Spiritual leader Asaram Bapu during a ceremony in Jodhpur, Rajasthan on Aug. 11.

Asumal Sirumalani, a popular Indian spiritual leader who is known to his followers as Asaram Bapu, has fought a long battle against sex.

At his crowded satsangs (spiritual