A rough deal for women

An adalat conducted by the State Women's Commission here on Monday was flooded with complaints from scores of women in distress. Of the 296 complaints, 114 were settled in the adalat headed by KSWC chairperson KC Rosakutty Teacher, director Jacob ...

Mumbai: Maharashtra government has set up a 64-member committee, headed by Women and Child Welfare Minister Varsha Gaikwad, to finalise its 2013. The draft policy has been prepared by Child Rights Protection Commission and Pune-based state run ...

The National Human Rights Commission on Saturday sought a report from the Ghaziabad Police and Government Railway Police about an incident wherein a woman died and her infant daughter was seriously injured after being allegedly pushed off a train near Link ...

When it comes to sexual assault on women by policemen, it seems even the top cops drag their feet.

What is the value of impression in a subject like violence against women? The chairman of the state human rights commission has said that women in this state are not tortured any less than those in Delhi, and sometimes the number of such incidents are higher.

Two tribal women workers of Jharkhand Party (Naren) today alleged to the state Women's Commission and state Human Rights Commission that they had been molested by ruling Trinamool Congress activists.

West Bengal Human Rights Commission chairman and former Supreme Court judge Asok Kumar Ganguly Saturday said the state is not lagging behind Delhi in the number of atrocities on women and may have well gone ahead of the national capital."Today in West Bengal ...

The Australian Human Rights Commission has today released a toolkit which has been developed to address the problem of too few women entering

Kabul (BNA) Afghan Women Network (AWN) has strongly opposed the expected amendments in the violence against women act and has categorically announced not to endorse even a single change and reforms in the act by the House of Representatives and AWN ...