NEW DELHI: In a bizarre incident, a 14-year-old girl, was raped by a class teacher who then ordered the school cook to abort the teenager’s 10-week old pregnancy. The girl has been admitted to hospital for severe bleeding and is now in critical condition. The incident was reported in a school in Unnao, near Lucknow, [...]
NEW DELHI: An Australia cricketer playing in the Indian Premier League (IPL) has been booked for attempting to rape a 27-year-old US citizen of Indian origin at a five star hotel here. 27-year-old Australian player Luke Pomersbach has been accused by the victim of trying to rape her in her own hotel bedroom and beating [...]
Kate Middleton is being urged to press her favorite retailer Zara to stop exploiting the women making its high street fashion. War on Want called on the Duchess of Cambridge to speak out as the anti-poverty charity launched a new report which shows how western brands are sourcing from south-east Asian factories that exploit female [...]
KUALA LUMPUR: Aisha walks quickly down the sidewalk. She is late for work. So is Samira. The two women appear as complete opposites, one wearing a hijab, or headscarf, while the other is in a slick business suit, a skirt just hitting below her knees, with no leggings. “This is what we want Malaysia to [...]
The story of thousands of migrant women workers is revealed in the new report launched by War on Want and the Asian Migrant Center. The report presents the appalling conditions faced by women who have to migrate because of poverty and political oppression. Despite being important economic drivers for countries’ economic growth, migrant women’s rights [...]
New Delhi: A police officer in the western Indian state of Maharashtra is in the dock after a woman he allegedly assaulted and locked up on charges of soliciting for sex, was pregnant and suffered a miscarriage. Prime Minister of India Dr Manmohan Singh has been petitioned by a global human rights organization to launch [...]
New Delhi: In a typical illustration of the long winding patriarchal Indian political discourse, the country’s parliamentarians want to stop the “indecent portrayal of women”. Cut down to basics, Indian MPs now want sexy, pouting women off television, especially in advertisements which they believe reduces woman to a commodity. Ad film makers and broadcasters in [...]
New Delhi: Delhi is the capital of India is old hat. The brutal gang-rape of a middle aged woman in a hospital toilet, a public garden and her subsequent murder back at the same hospital is only reinforcing the image of Delhi, as the sadist capital of sex crimes. Police say they have arrested three [...]
KATHMANDU: Nepal’s Army Chief General CMS Gurung on Tuesday said he would assist all possible help to Indian Army’s women Everest summit expedition team. The team, which is currently in Nepal, is hoping to summit the world’s highest peak between Tuesday and Sunday, the team said in a statement. Gurung also said that he would [...]
SINGAPORE: Singapore women wanting to enter the flight attendant sector received positive news this week, allowing them to work longer, highlighting what women’s rights advocates say is a step in the right direction. “It makes women have more power in their professional careers and no longer is flying and working on a plane the right [...]
BANGKOK: Thailand is in a frenzy over a video showing Thai army soldiers having sex with a woman. The anger grew this week after the government reported the woman was autistic. A number of women’s rights activists and groups are demanding that the government prosecute the soldiers for possible rape, arguing that the woman may [...]
KUALA LUMPUR: Suzie* is a lesbian. A Malaysian lesbian. Yet she struggles with her daily life. When she speaks openly about her life, many accuse her of trying to “convert” other girls to being gay. “It’s daily, people will ask me what it is like to be a lesbian in Malaysia and I tell them,” [...]
Nasik, India – It is the day after Holi, the Hindu festival of colours celebrating the Spring season and a good harvest. Coloured powder from the previous day’s events still adorns downtown Nasik, a city of 1.5 million about three and a half hours east of Mumbai. A group of youngsters, all dressed in traditional [...]
SANA’A: Police officers in Yemen’s capital Sana’a told Bikyamasr.com that a group of 7 drunk Yemeni youth attacked a 13-year-old orphan girl. After raping her, the young men beat up the orphan so badly that she succumbed to the blows of her attackers. Residents told our correspondent that they felt utterly disgusted, stressing that never [...]
New Delhi: Two feminine ends of what was once India’s most poignant love triangle saga, finally find themselves under one roof; that of the Indian Parliament. The smoldering-forever Rekha Ganesan and the once-bubbly-now-dogged Jaya Bachchan, both renowned actresses of Indian cinema, shared space under the grand dome of the Indian Parliament’s Upper House, the Rajya [...]
Tunis – There are currently 59 women in the Tunisian National Constituent Assembly (NCA), out of the 217 deputies elected last fall to draft a new constitution. These 59 women were able to run in the elections as part of a political party either because they had demonstrated leadership in the past or because they [...]
NEW DELHI: More than half of the pregnant and lactating women in the South Indian State of Kerala, lack both nutrition and support from the anganwadis, a government institution meant to provide precisely that. A survey has revealed that anganwadis, local centers meant to give nutritional and healthcare support to infants, pregnant women and lactating [...]
CAIRO: A number of Egyptian medical associations and human rights organizations issued a joint statement on Monday condemning reports on the mobile medical convoy for circumcision of girls in Minya governorate, organized by the Muslim Brotherhood`s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP). They expressed their shock from the attempts to tamper with guarantees of the “bodily [...]
New Delhi: A young Australian woman was date-raped by an Indian male, in what is being referred to as a ‘Facebook rape case’ in this part of the world. The Indian police are on the lookout for one Sammy Sidhana, who had established contact with the 22-year old Australian woman on Facebook months ago, before [...]
New Delhi: Stranded in Saudi Arabia for days without required documentation, seven Indian nurses were rescued by the Indian Embassy in the Kingdom, officials said. Efforts are now on at war-footing to repatriate them. Four of the seven nurses, who are mostly from the southern Indian state of Kerala, which produces the highest number of [...]
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