Speaker took a moment to condemn the rise of sexual crimes toward women and children and to pray for the child’s speedy recovery. Lok Sabha Session Transcript – Speaker’s comments on gang-rape of 5 year old
Sushilkumar Shinde, the Home Minister, made a statement with the details of the incident and arrest of the driver and accused Ram Singh and other three accused. He reported that all roads in Delhi were patrolled by PCR vans with higher frequency on roads identified as used by women commuting from work. Motorcycle patrols and […]
Vrinda Grover first criticizes that women’s groups were not further included in the work on the report. However, she goes on with a long list of issues like harassment of women at their workplace, the inclusion of marital rape, the expansion of definition of sexual assault, which is more gender neutral, the keeping of the […]
Sushma Swaraj, leader of the opposition, speaks on the December 16th gang rape during zero hour and calls for capital punishment for those convicted. She adds that it is a shame that the chief minister, who is a woman, also sends out the message that women should not leave the house alone instead of improving […]
The institution stresses to problem of under-reporting of sexual violence and therefore recommends the Union Government to conduct annual Indian Crime Surveys (ICS). Takshashila Institution
Ved Kumari touches upon the issue that in the gang-rape in Delhi 2012 a minor was involved. She makes clear that vengeance has no space in a liberal civil society. Quite on the contrary, prevention and better child care are the solution here. However, she asks for a better and mandatory inclusion of classes on […]
The PVCHR is mainly focused on the problem of patriarchal attitudes, which are reinforced by caste, communal and class inequalities or perpetrated by the state. Here, there is a potential for sexual violence inflicted as a part of an assault by a dominant community as in a caste attack or communal riot; or when sexual […]
First, the collective of numerous individuals and organizations based in Delhi, demands for a more encompassing definition, which further includes all gender groups. Further, they stress the role of sexual assault during sectarian violence, custodial violence, sexual violence committed by security forces and sexual violence towards physically and mentally disabled people. Also they recommend explicit […]
Baijayant ‘Jay’ Panda, a member of the Lok Sabha, proposes some improvements of the legal system with regard to the December 16th rape case. First, he proposes a significant increase of the number of judges and the establishment of fast track trials. Further, he demands for an increase of female police officers. Moreover, he wants […]
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