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Park Street victim leads Kamduni protest	19.6.2013	Kolkata News, Kolkata City News \| Cities News - Times of India
Park Street victim leads Kamduni protest
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The GOP's latest abortion ban push is staggeringly stupid \| Ana Marie Cox	18.6.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
The white male-dominated Republican party is still living in the stone age on social issues. It just goes from bad to worse It's a truism verging on dogma that history favors steady progress toward equal rights for gays. The last election cycle saw incredible gains for marriage equality and representation for gays and lesbians in government. There is a movement in the Republican party to at least stop fighting the issue, and at least a recognition that they cannot hope to grow the party as long as young voters associate opposition to marriage equality with a general stance of intolerance and bigotry. Funny how attitudes haven't shifted in the same way when it comes to women and, especially, anything to do with sex. Why are debates about reproductive rights mired in Neanderthal attitudes, demonstrably fanciful notions about biology ("legitimate rape"), and pro-life activists stubbornly resistant to even basic attempts at reasonable compromise? Indeed, many of the most extreme anti-choice ...
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'Rape has become a political slugfest in Bengal' (Cached)	18.6.2013	GovernanceNow: Top Stories
On Monday, June 17, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee finally decided to visit the house of a Barasat college student who was raped and murdered on June 6. From all accounts, the reason behin
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Our stubborn sexism (Cached)	12.6.2013	Indian Express: Op-Ed
A musty male chauvinism endures tenaciously in American society
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Puducherry no longer safe for women?	9.6.2013	The New Indian Express - Tamil Nadu - http://newindianexpress.com/states/tamil_nadu/

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Transgender activist alleges sexual assault (Cached)	9.6.2013	TOI: Chennai
Transgender activist alleges sexual assault
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Court awards death for rape, murder of 5-yr-old	8.6.2013	deccanherald.com
In a speedy trial, a 53-year-old man was on Friday sentenced to death by a court here for rape and murder of a five-year-old girl in January. While pronouncing the verdict, Additional Sessions Judge P H Mali observed that the case fell under the "rarest of rare" category as the victim had been done to death in the most cruel manner and a young life was snuffed out. Prosecutor Sangeeta Phad had sought death penalty for the accused, Dattu Ambo Rokade, stating that such an inhuman act deserved nothing less than capital punishment. Also, circumstantial evidence and statements of Rokade's wife and son that he was capable of committing such a heinous act, nailed the accused. The incident took place on January 22 when the victim was playing near her house, while her elder brother and sister were watching TV. The victim's parents were out for work, investigating officer Pushpa Chavan Dighe told the court. Rokade lured the victim into his house and then sexually assaulted her, Dighe said. When ...
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Kolkatas slutwalk remembers Rituparno Ghosh (Cached)	7.6.2013	Hindustan Times: India
Kolkatas slutwalk remembers Rituparno Ghosh
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Kolkata's slutwalk remembers Rituparno Ghosh (Cached)	7.6.2013	New Kerala: West Bengal
Kolkata, June 7 : Around 200 people - mostly wearing glowing bright red devil's horns - took to the streets holding aloft placards in memory of master filmmaker Rituparno Ghosh at the second edition of the Kolkata slutwalk Friday.
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Tory MP Richard Drax cleared over sexual harassment allegations	6.6.2013	The Guardian -- Front Page
Anne Lyndoe-Tavistock alleged that Drax and his wife sexually touched her, but employment tribunal dismisses claim A Conservative MP has spoken of his family's relief after their lesbian housekeeper had her case for sexual harassment and unfair dismissal thrown out. South Dorset MP Richard Drax wept as the unanimous decision of an employment tribunal was reached. He said afterwards that the claims had been "extremely stressful" for his family. Employment judge Roger Peters told the employment tribunal in Southampton that the events described by Anne Lyndoe-Tavistock did not happen. Lyndoe-Tavistock, who has waived her right to anonymity, alleged that Drax and his wife, Elsebet, sexually touched her and she fled. But the panel of three did not believe her, saying she had acted normally after the alleged incident and had not confided in anyone, as they would have expected. The MP and his wife denied all the allegations and Lyndoe-Tavistock's claims of sexual harassment, unfair ...
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Speaking out about violence against women \| Ashley Nelson	6.6.2013	Guardian: Comment is Free
Star Trek actor Patrick Stewart has proved a hero off the screen – by addressing domestic violence with candor and compassion A remarkable thing happened last week at Comicpalooza in Texas – and it didn't involve superheroes, at least not imaginary ones. At an event with Patrick Stewart, the actor of Star Trek fame, a young woman named Heather Skye thanked the actor for a speech he gave to Amnesty International in 2009 on violence against women, and then bravely shared that she had been a victim of such violence herself. Courage begets courage and perhaps for this reason, Stewart did not merely accept the praise and move on, but began a lengthy and impassioned personal account of how his father used to beat his mother. "As a child I heard in my home doctors and ambulance men say, 'Mrs Stewart, you must have done something to provoke him. Mrs Stewart, it takes two to make an argument.' Wrong. Wrong. My mother did nothing to provoke that and even if she had, violence is never, ever a choice ...
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Malaysians like to watch 'homegrown' porn (Cached)	5.6.2013	New Kerala: India News
Kuala Lumpur, June 4 : A study by a sex search engine has claimed that when it comes to internet pornography, Malaysians prefer to watch local material.
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Clare Balding row: this lesbian's not for turning \| Julie Bindel	4.6.2013	Guardian: Comment is Free
The 5 Live jokes about Balding sprang from pure misogyny. Some men need a good lesson in keeping their thoughts to themselves It was with a sense of deja vu that I read about Colin Murray challenging Bob Mills on the all-male panel of BBC Radio 5 Live show Fighting Talk to come up with a strategy for turning presenter Clare Balding from lesbian to straight . If I were to count the number of times I have been told by a man that all I need is "a good seeing to" to turn me straight I would be dizzy. It is often said in response to me coming out as a lesbian, which I feel compelled to do with monotonous regularity, given that I sometimes take taxis, speak to strangers at bus stops and speak at public debates about sexuality. But more often I am told I need a decent shagging because I am that bit too feminist for a lot of men. If I challenge sexist behaviour, sexual violence, or, heaven forbid, suggest that men could do with keeping it zipped about how women should look, dress and behave, ...
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Alternate lives scorch silver screens this season	4.6.2013	newindianexpress.com
recently released films like Mumbai Police and English chose to travel on a different path
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How Uganda's female writers found their voice	26.5.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
A pioneering foundation called Femwrite has helped a new generation of Ugandan women tell – or at least record – often harrowing stories of daily life in the country Beatrice Lamwaka was not yet a teenager when her 13-year-old brother, Richard, was abducted as a child soldier. The family lived in Alokolum, a town in northern Uganda, an area riven by civil war and brutal uprisings since the late 1980s, and Richard was snatched by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), a militia group under the fanatical control of the murderous Joseph Kony. Under Kony's rule, child soldiers such as Richard were given automatic weapons and trained to kill. They were forced to commit atrocities against their friends and siblings. Those who attempted to escape were murdered. Against all odds, Richard survived, returning home some months later. Yet he never once spoke about what he had endured. Nor did his family ever ask him what had happened. They didn't know how to tell him that in his absence, they had assumed he ...
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Cyber cops look for sodomy web post offenders (Cached)	23.5.2013	TOI: Mumbai
Cyber cops look for sodomy web post offenders
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Odd International travel advisories for India (Cached)	22.5.2013	TOI: All Headlines
Odd International travel advisories for India
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Take a hard look at racism, sexism and homophobia on college campuses \| Andrew Longhi	21.5.2013	Guardian: Comment is Free
My recent experience at Dartmouth College has shown me that we are still not the society we want to be Like many universities, Dartmouth College has venerated traditions. The annual Dimensions show – a festive, student-organized musical revue performed to entice admitted, but undecided, students to come to Dartmouth – is one such tradition. Many prospective students decide to attend Dartmouth because of how much they enjoy the performance. On 19 April, a group of students calling themselves "#Realtalk" interrupted the show , protesting sexual assault, racism, and homophobia at the university. It was a real jolt for the campus community. President Carol Folt cancelled classes on 24 April for the first time since the mid-1980s due to the backlash: a barrage of rape and death threats on social media sites and internet forums. The ugliness and volume of these threats – not to mention the negative PR – convinced the administration that the school was in a state of crisis. In place of its usual ...
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Chinese Premier hopes India-China increase mutual strategic trust - 2 hours ago	20.5.2013	DNA: Bangalore
Chinese Premier hopes India-China increase mutual strategic trust - 2 hours ago
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Voices in Colour (Cached)	19.5.2013	Indian Express: Chandigarh
Ludhiana-based art promoter Tejinder Ladi Singh realises how important it is for artists to have a platform to express themselves and reach out to new audiences.
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