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Punjab shame piles on: Gang-raped and dumped, nurse critical BATHINDA: Even before the memories of Patiala gang rape and suicide case fade, another abduction and gang-rape of a 26-year-old nurse, who was in Chandigarh to attend a job interview, shocked Punjab on Sunday. In an observation in...

Ending India’s culture of silence on rape By Haroon Siddiqui Editorial Page - The Star, Toronto - Januatry 16, 2013 NEW DELHI—India’s first {censored} Walk was held here last summer. In keeping with the spirit of the movement — which originated in Toronto after a cop told York University...

Lawyer in India rape case blames victims for assault By Andrew MacAskill http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/world/2013/01/10/victims-delhi-rape-case-are-blame-defendants-lawyer-says/BQ9ts3th2ueLDrIJp3vJwO/story.html NEW DELHI — The lawyer representing three of the men charged with the gang...

Some of you may be wondering why the 2 threads identifying the name and image of the Delhi rape victim have been moved. You can no longer see them. I have done that because of a public notice I spotted on The Hindu this morning. Even if the father has given permission, it is still a violation...

India’s rape problem is also a police problem Posted by Max Fisher http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/01/07/indias-rape-problem-is-also-a-police-problem/ Public outrage over the recent shocking assault and gang rape of a 23-year-old Delhi woman developed into outrage...

Kerala cops ask Facebook to remove fake photo of gang rape victim http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/kerala/kerala-cops-ask-facebook-to-remove-fake-photo-of-gang-rape-victim/article4268971.ece Kerala Police has written to Facebook following a complaint from the parents of a young woman...

She was studious, ambitious and about to be married. Her parents had sold off land and scrimped on food to pay for her and her brothers’ education. She came to India’s capital to pursue dreams of being a doctor, from a tiny farming village that regularly suffered drought and floods...

Let's ask how we contribute to rape http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/lets-ask-how-we-contribute-to-rape/article4235902.ece by Urvashi Butalia As I write this, there are protests going on all over Delhi, and in other parts of the country, against the gang-rape of a young woman on a...

NEW DELHI—The victim of a gang rape earlier this month in India's capital that prompted widespread rage and a national debate over the treatment of women died in a Singapore hospital Friday, according to her doctors. A statement by Singapore's Mount Elizabeth hospital where the 23-year-old...

Retired judge to probe Delhi gang rape case http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Retired-judge-to-probe-Delhi-gang-rape-case/articleshow/17767446.cms NEW DELHI: Government today set up a Commission of Inquiry to identify lapses and fix responsibility in the gang rape of 23-year-old...

Delhi gang rape case: Victim shifted out of Safdarjung hospital, headed for Singapore http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Delhi-gang-rape-case-Victim-shifted-out-of-Safdarjung-hospital-headed-for-Singapore/articleshow/17773652.cms? NEW DELHI: The 23-year-old gang rape victim...

As people in their hordes hit the streets of Delhi to vent grief and anger over the brutal gang-rape of a 23-year-old woman on last Sunday, a city hospital Friday offered the victim free intestinal transplant. The private Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in central Delhi has also offered to bear the...

Two arrested in Delhi gangrape case, doctors say 'never seen such brutality' HT Correspondent, Hindustan Times New Delhi, December 18, 2012 http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/NewDelhi/Two-arrested-in-Delhi-gangrape-case-doctors-say-never-seen-such-brutality/Article1-974240.aspx...

Indiana Republican Senate candidate Richard Mourdock has said that pregnancy caused by rape is something "God intended" and not a situation that justifies an abortion, roiling a tight race less than two weeks before the election. Mr Mourdock's comment came in response to a voter-submitted...

The rape of men Sexual violence is one of the most horrific weapons of war, an instrument of terror used against women. Yet huge numbers of men are also victims. In this harrowing report, Will Storr travels to Uganda to meet traumatised survivors, and...

FATEHPUR, 6 FEB: A 16-year-old Dalit girl was seriously injured when three youths chopped off her nose, ear and a part of her hand after she resisted a rape attempt in the Bindaki area, a senior officer said today. Three youths, identified as Shivom, Hari Shanker and Pawan, waylaid the girl...

New Delhi, Dec 15 (IANS) With rising number of cases of rape and sexual harassment in the capital, Women and Child Development Minister Krishna Tirath Wednesday met the consultative committee of her ministry on the issue and said the rehabilitation scheme for rape victims is in the final...

HC comes to the aid of rape victim, her child Saurabh Malik Tribune News Service Chandigarh, November 30 Raped when she was just 17 and left to fend for herself and her child, the victim has received financial solace...

Accused granthi should be hanged: SGPC Charu Chhibber Tribune News Service Ludhiana, July 29 Shocked at the alleged rape of a minor girl by a granthi on the premises of a local gurdwara, the SGPC has demanded capital punishment for the accused. Talking to The Tribune, SGPC president...

The Sikh community in Kalamboli has demanded thorough investigation and immediate arrest of the second accused in the St Joseph School rape case. The community members also met on Thursday to decide about further action to be taken over the issue. “This is not for the first time that such a...