This Bill seeks to prevent and prohibit the atrocities and offences like teasing, stripping or parading naked, molestation, rape, outraging modesty, branding or killing as witches, forcing into prostitution offering as devadaasi etc. against the women and girl child and to provide for deterrent punishment and special Courts for the trial of such offences and […]
2013 revised version of the act to prevent sexual harassment at the working place. Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Bill, 2013 – Gazette of India
This Act was established for the prevention of offences of atrocities against the members of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes and to provide for Special Courts for such offences. Also it tries to help relief and rehabilitation of the victims. It hereby includes gender sensitive issues like dishonoring, naked parading and sexual exploitation […]
Within a human rights framework this bill discusses aspects of defining it, filing it and sentencing it. Protection of Women Against Sexual Harassment at Workplace Bill, 2010 – As introduced in Lok Sabha (1)
This Act seeks to protect minors (below 18) from sexual exploitation, assault, abuse, prostitution, pornography, stripping, etc. It hereby includes penovaginal intercourse, but also other body party and external objects. Further also penalties and sentences are clearly defined, which are also applicable to the security forces and the police. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9wqvs5QNCItaVd2eXRpSWM0Y1k/edit?usp=sharing
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 […]
Here, helplines , help centers , shelters, trainings in self-defense and sexual education are demanded as a way to act preventing. Further overcrowded infrastructure and similar situations need to be avoided. Also, matters of marital and mass sexual violence must finally be acknowledged by law. Last, but not least, it is stated that extreme penalties […]
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 […]
The People’s Union for Civil Liberties addresses the fact that only law and punishment will not lead to an improved situation with regard to women’s safety. Hereby, they especially the reject the imposition of the death penalty and chemical castration. Moreover, structural issues need to be discussed and the overall definition of sexual assault needs […]