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)
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 […]
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 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 […]
This legal resource group demands for a more encompassing definition of sexual assault and a specific discussion on the issue of same-sex sexual assault and aggravated sexual assault. Also they specifically explore the topics of acid attacks, vocabulary used in law, marital rape and age of consent. Further, they deliver recommendations on reparations and rehabilitation, […]
This collective, representing women with disabilities , demand a stronger protection and rehabilitation of those with regard to the increasing numbers of sexual assault. From the perspective of Women with Disabilities
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 […]