Set up special courts to try rape cases: AIDWA

THE All India Democratic Womens Association (AIDWA) held a consultation on the Criminal Law Amendment Bill 2013 (popularly known as the anti-rape law) after the presidential assent to this law last week. The discussion was attended by national level ...

The All India Democratic Women's Association, a wing of the Communist Party of India-Marxist, was one of the first organisations to take up the case of the Suryanelli gang-rape victim in 1996.Seventeen years on, as the case continues to create shockwaves across the nation, K K Shailaja, the general secretary of the AIDWA, in an exclusive interview with rediff.com’s Shobha Warrier, talks about the plight of the victim and the alleged involvement of Rajya Sabha deputy chairman P ...

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NEW DELHI Amid an intensifying crackdown on nongovernmental groups that receive foreign funding, Indian activists are accusing the government of stifling their right to dissent in the world's largest democracy. India has tightened the rules on ...

The world has come a long way in terms of our treatment of women. We have. But in many agrarian and deeply religious societies, many women are still poorly treated. Millions are abused and discriminated against. In Afghanistan, Guatemala and ...

In this Sunday's Karnataka assembly election, according to the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR), the six major parties have fielded 220 candidates with criminal charges against them. The biggest culprit is the Congress 25% of its candidates ...

The barbaric rape of a young Physiotherapy student in a moving bus in Delhi last December shook the nation's conscience and prompted thousands of people to take to the streets. One of the questions the incident raised was whether women were more ...

Jamshedpur: Archery Association of India (AAI) is contemplating starting a zonal championship on the lines of National Ranking Archery Tournament from this year- end to provide more exposure to the archers."We are planning to launch a zonal level ...

The latest insanity from the genetic engineers is to push GMO bananas on India for reducing iron deficiency in Indian women. Nature has given us a cornucopia of biodiversity, rich in nutrients. Malnutrition and nutrient deficiency results from ...