Only 36 countries in the world have still not criminalised marital rape. India really needs to get out of this list which houses, among others, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
To tackle sexual assault and violence effectively, we need to free our laws of gender stereotypes.
It is not the severity of the punishment that will deter crime; rather the surety of punishment that helps.
There are myriad problems with the Mahmood Farooqui case and its verdict.
The concept of 'feeble no' introduced in the case of Peepli Live's co-director allows rapists the room to twist facts in the future and confuse judgments.
The age of consent should have nothing to do with age of marriage.
This could prove to be a milestone in women’s search for justice in a country where gender sensitivity is light years behind.
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