As per the National Crime Records Bureau, out of the 32,033 rape cases reported from all states and Union Territories in India, over 94% of the survivors knew their abusers.

The country is still reeling under the shock of the brutal gang rape of a 19-year-old in Hathras but there is no letting up of rape incidents in the country. Uttar Pradesh seems to be a hotbed of such incidents especially rape of minor girls. A 17-year-old was raped in Jhansi in a college, reportedly, […]

How do the authorities expect women to file a complaint when their perpetrator is in the house regulating their movement round the clock?

The country is outraged at Priyanka Reddy’s rape and murder. Why does India fail her daughters so often?

In India, it’s the beti who needs to be protected. She must be stopped from ‘being herself’ and even more often than not, she is asked to behave so she isn’t ‘calling for assault’. The now widely used slogan Beti Bachao should make us think. Is it the daughters / girls who need to be […]

Women get raped because they wear jeans. Women get raped because they are out after dark. Women get raped because they talk on the phone. Women get raped because — well, because men are not held accountable for their actions. The society may tell you how wrong you are as a woman and why exactly […]

A new study has found that 27 per cent of Europeans think rape can be justified under certain circumstances. The study, which surveyed around 30,000 people, presented them scenarios such as being drunk or wearing revealing clothing and asked if intercourse would be justifiable in these circumstances.