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 […]
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 […]
The CPI (Marxist) demands for the inclusion of identity-based sexual violence, child violence, gang-rape and custodial sexual violence as aggravated sexual assault. The maximum penalty should be life imprisonment. Further they demand for the implementation of fast track trials and better rehabilitation possibilities. Also the party asks for a separate clause for acid attacks. For […]
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 […]
The famous rape survivor Bilkis Bano and her mentors demand specifically for a stronger focus of sexual violence during the episodes of targeted identity-based violence on a single and mass level. They here ask for a recognition of this as aggravated sexual assault under law. Further they recommend a reform in Cr.P.C and the evidence […]