NDTV: Six-month-old girl abandoned in train in West Bengal
The same week that India was named the most dangerous country for girl children, NDTV runs this heart-breaking story: Kolkata: Just a few days after Baby Falak’s story made headlines across the country, another infant girl has been found abandoned – this time in a train in West Bengal. Estimated to be six months old, the [...]
Times of India: India deadliest place in world for girl child
By Rukmini Shrinivasan NEW DELHI: It’s official – India is the most dangerous place in the world to be a baby girl. Newly released data shows that an Indian girl child aged 1-5 years is 75% more likely to die than an Indian boy, making this the worst gender differential in child mortality for any country in the world.Infant (0-1 [...]
The Ticker 1.31.12
Here’s a weekly digest of important news stories from around the world: Maha No. 1 in domestic violence cases: Study 1.31.12, The Times of India Funding crunch hurts war against domestic violence 1.31.12, The Jerusalem Post Canadian values in spotlight after “honor killings” 1.31.12, The Times of India Serial domestic abusers should not be hidden 1.30.12, [...]
Dude of the Day: His Holiness Gyalwang Drukpa
Who deserves to be called “Dude of the Day” more than a man who wants to reincarnate as a woman? Gyalwang Drukpa, spiritual head of the 1,000-year-old Drukpa lineage of Buddhism, is that man. His Holiness is always in the vanguard where women’s rights are concerned. He fights for gender equality and even wishes to [...]
India’s Youth Walks On The Risky Side
A new study reveals around 7% of young women and 27% of young men in India, who are having or have had premarital sex, use condoms. Only a mere 3% of women and 13% of men said to have always used protection in premarital relationships. The other results are equally alarming. Not more than 40% [...]
Feeling the “Power Cuts” in Delhi
Who am I? It’s a question I find myself asking more and more these days. Am I British? An “Overseas Citizen of India (OCI)?” A “trailing spouse?” Perhaps I should explain: I was born and brought up in England, the daughter of Punjabi parents who emigrated to the UK in the 1960s. I moved to [...]
The Costs of Intimate Partner Violence in the U.S.
Based on the data collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2003, almost 5.3 million intimate partner victimizations occur among women in the United States ages 18 and older every year. And the costs of intimate partner rape, physical assault, and stalking exceed an estimated $5.8 billion, including $4.1 billion in [...]
The Ticker 1.23.12
Here’s a weekly digest of important news stories from around the world: Guatemalans climb volcano in protest against violence 1.22.12, BBC Woman’s Rights Around The World: What Have We Achieved? 1.18.12, The Huffington Post Domestic violence gets a voice 1.19.12, Times of India High Hopes 2012 Will Be a Good Year for Women 1.10.12, The New [...]
Government for stricter punishment in stalking cases
In what will surely come as a relief to women across India, the government wants stalking to be made a separate offence under the Indian Penal Code (IPC), punishable with up to seven years in jail. Presently, stalking cases are dealt with under sections 506 (punishment for criminal intimidation) and 509 (outraging the modesty of [...]
Homemaker’s Value Must Be Recognised
There is no way to evaluate the services rendered by a homemaker (housewife) but the value must be recognised, the Supreme Court said on Monday. A bench of justice GS Singhvi and justice SJ Mukhopadhyaya chided the National Consumer Commission for reducing the compensation awarded to a woman’s husband for medical negligence on the grounds [...]
The Bell Bajao! Video contest
In the new year Breakthrough is happy to present our latest contest. What do you have to do? Interpret the The Bell Bajao video contest concept through a 5 sec video and send us your masterpiece! Our team will piece it together and release the final video at the end of the month. The [...]
India Has Many Sahars
By Rashmi Saksena The heart wrenching story of Sahar Gul, the 15 year old child bride, tortured in the basement of her home in the north eastern Baghlan province of Afghanistan has in the last one week made news in India too. The Indian media has highlighted that Sahar, the Afghan child bride has been [...]
