According to the Washington Post, hundreds gathered in New Delhi, India on Sunday to protest the release of one of the New Delhi rapists. Indian authorities released the unnamed man after serving three years in a correctional home.
Human rights organization Breakthrough has launched a "Board the Bus" campaign in India to help raise awareness of public safety issues that pose a daily threat to women.
Monday marked one year since the horrific rape and murder of the 23-year-old physiotherapy intern in New Delhi, India. The tragedy catapulted the topic of rape into everyday Indian life and shed undeniable light on the other ways Indian society oppresses women. For the first time India, its government and its…
24-year-old Punita Devi's husband is one of four men convicted of raping and killing a young physiotherapy student on a New Delhi bus last December. Now that her husband is sentenced to death, she's sentenced to a life of poverty and rejection: not because he's a rapist, but because she's a woman without a husband.
Today, four men convicted of brutally gang raping and murdering a young New Delhi woman were sentenced to death by hanging. The decision was met by cheers from the crowd gathered outside the courthouse.
An Indian court found four men guilty today of the infamous New Delhi bus gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old woman last December.
Sunny Hundal, the author of e-book India Dishonored: Behind a Nation's War On Women, has written a fascinating piece for Al Jazeera that some readers might consider an exposé on India's shocking amount of missing women — but in actuality, it's just an amassing of public census data and facts that have been reported…
Protesters in India have once again taken to the streets to express their outrage at the way law enforcements officials have reportedly mishandled a case of sexual assault, this time against a five-year-old girl who remains in stable condition at a hospital after a 22-year-old man was arrested under the suspicion that…
A number of protests sprang up in front of New Delhi police headquarters, Parliament and a major university after a 23-year-old woman in India was gang-raped and beaten nearly to death with a metal rod on a bus that passed through a number of police checkpoints. As if that wasn't bad enough, two more girls—ages 10 and…
Indian villagers watch a procession from a rooftop during Holi festivities near Barsana, just south of New Delhi, India on Friday, March 9, 2012. Holi is the Hindu festival of colors near and can last days or longer in some areas of the country, marks the beginning of spring. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)
[New Delhi, August 3. Bollywood actress Sonam Kapoor tastes an ice cream during a promotional event of an ice cream company. Image via AP]
[New Delhi, July 25. A model displays a creation by Indian designer Rina Dhaka at the Pearls Infrastructure Delhi Couture Week. Image via AP]
[New Delhi, July 21. A model displays a creation by Indian designer Rohit Bal at the Pearls Delhi Couture Week 2010 in New Delhi, India. Image via AP]
