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Palestine murder highlights violence against women (Palestine)
Source: The Himalayan AP Palestinian women hold signs in Arabic that read, “protecting women from violence is an official (authorities) and social responsibility,” right, and “shame on us. We Palestinians for killing our women,” left, during a demonstration protesting violence against women held at the spot where a woman’s throat was allegedly […]
UAE judge acquits Indian man of attempted rape, women angry (United Arab Emirates)
July 30, 2012
Source Women in UAE face uphill battle against sexual violence. DUBAI: Dubai court has acquitted an Indian national of attempted rape of a Filipina housemaid, but was sentenced to one month in jail for trespassing. The court’s ruling cited a lack of corroborated evidence, making it impossible to convict the man of attempting to rape […]
Sexual assault: Four men remanded to police for three days (Pakistan)
July 28, 2012
Source “The woman was sexually assaulted for three days before the suspects abandoned her in a field near her home,” FIR. PHOTO: FILE FAISALABAD: Four people arrested in a sexual assault case were on Friday remanded into Thikriwala police’s custody for three days. Two of them were arrested on Friday and the others after the registration […]
Crime against women: Man held for sexual assault, kidnapping (Pakistan)
July 27, 2012
By Kashif Zafar Woman’s husband says police reluctant to proceed, his complaint registered three days after his wife, child were released. PHOTO:FILE RAHIM YAR KHAN: Zahir Peer police have arrested a man on charges of kidnapping a woman and sexually assaulting her for eight days. The FIR registered in the matter accuses the suspect of detaining […]
Patna girl raped by classmates, MMS circulated (India)
July 26, 2012
Source: IBN LIVE Video 274996-3-232.html Patna: In a horrific incident in Patna, a young girl was gangraped by her boyfriend and his classmates. And what’s worse was that the heinous crime was shot on a camera and circulated on MMS. Though the incident happened almost a month back, the police have not taken any action […]
Rape victim’s father tries to immolate himself (India)
July 26, 2012
byadminonJuly 26, 2012with1 CommentsinNational News,News 1 Rape victim’s father tries to immolate himself. New Delhi: A man from Aligarh on Thursday tried to immolate himself at Vijay Chowk here after he failed to get justice for his minor daughter, who was allegedly raped by an influential person of his locality four months ago, police said. Frustrated […]
70 Years old woman killed for alleged witchcraft (Nigeria)
July 25, 2012
Source:Decoblog 70 Years old woman killed for alleged witchcraft EKITI State government is sad over the killing in Omuo Ekiti of a seventy-year old woman identified as Madam Rebecca Adewunmi accused of witchcraft. The daughter of the deceased woman, Mrs. Grace Smith, said some youths in the community conspired to kill her mother. Gracee Smithy […]
Firstpost Life From the Delhi police: Why women deserve to be raped
April 9, 2012
Source:First Post Life I realised that according to stringent criteria of the Delhi Police, almost all women deserve to be raped. Reuters One of the most depressing aspects of writing about the recent string of rape cases are the responses these kinds of stories inevitably evoke. The Internet trolls come out in swarms to […]
What a shockingly shameful way to prevent rape! (India)
April 9, 2012
Source:Daily Bhaskar Women, venture out the door at your own risk after 8pm. Blame not the police if vagabonds drag you inside their vans and molest you — This seems to be the message of the Gurgaon Police to all ladies staying in the city, and to all those daily woman commuters who come here to earn […]
Rape case shames EU-aspirant Ukraine
March 19, 2012
‘ If you are the son or the nephew of someone with power, you can basically go around acting with total impunity’ (Photo: thisisbossi) BRUSSELS – Last week she was raped, choked, thrown into a pit on a construction site and set on fire. In order to save her life, doctors have amputated her feet […]
August 3, 2012
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