A visual enquiry into the rape epidemic in India and the systematic dysfunction of the Indian justice system. Credits Aditya Jain, Design and Development Award Kantar Information is Beautiful Awards 2018 Categories Longlist Silver Winners Humanitarian ...
If police officials in India fail to take rape survivors seriously, American law enforcement is not so far behind. The Federal Bureau of Investigation crime data reveals only 24 percent of reported rapes result in an arrest in the United States, a rate far below that of other violent crimes ...
Tapas Pal, the Trinamool Congress member, shot to infamy when he said the unthinkable. In shocking remarks made during a speech in a Choumaha village in West Bengal in July, Pal openly threatened to send ’his boys’ and get women of the opposition (read Communist Party of India-Marxist)...
Rape is considered as a most heinous crime done on women and statistic states that it is quite prone in India. We have various laws to regulate such heinous crime but when it comes on the implementation part, we lack somewhere or we need to make an attempt to have a hold upon it. ...
India reported an average of nearly 90 rapes per day in 2022, according to the most recent data from the National Crime Records Bureau, although experts believe the real number could be much higher since many rapes go unreported due to prevailing stigmas around sexual violence and a lack of ...
Rape Laws in India Rape is a stigma which exists in the society from a long time. The dictionary meaning of word rape is “the ravishing or violation of a woman.” The rape victim i.e. a woman as woman cannot commit rape due to biological reasons. She is traumatized after the event;...
Two teenagers have been gang-raped in separate incidents in India in the past four days, highlighting a rape epidemic that shows no sign of abating despite tougher penalties introduced last month. See more:https://t.co/rQpE0xGlRdpic.twitter.com/qt7zFgdDaG ...
India is one of the world's most dangerous places for women with a rape occurring every 15 minutes, federal data shows. In December 2012, the gang rape of a 23-year-old woman sparked nationwide outrage and led to a tough new anti-rape law. Public criticism mounted in recen...
NEW DELHI, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) -- A nine-year-old Russian girl has been raped at a sea beach in the western Indian state of Goa, a senior police official said on Wednesday. "The child was with her mother at Arambol Beach on Tuesday evening when two Indian men approached them. One chat...
At least seven men have been arrested in western India after a 16-year-old girl claimed she was raped hundreds of times by hundreds of men in the latest horrifying case to highlight the country’s rampant sexual violence problem.