Femicides at a twenty-year peak across globe | Data

Femicides at a twenty-year peak across globe | Data

Women are more likely to be murdered by their partners or someone known to them | Photo Credit: ZUBADA About 88,900 women and girls were intentionally killed worldwide on the grounds of gender-related factors in 2022, a recent study from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and UN Women shows. This is … Read more

The mutilated body of woman found in Malda triggers panic, and a political row

The mutilated body of woman found in Malda triggers panic, and a political row

  The body of an unidentified woman with multiple injuries in West Bengal’s Malda district not only triggered panic among the people but also sparked a political war of words between the Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The body, found in Harishchandrapur in Malda, had been disfigured with acid. It was … Read more

House Votes to Revive Violence Against Women Act

House Votes to Revive Violence Against Women Act

March 10, 2022 The U.S. House of Representatives has voted to renew the Violence Against Women Act, a lapsed law designed to reduce domestic violence and sexual assault, The New York Times reported. The VAWA provides funding for programs that support victims of domestic violence and sexual assault, such as rape crisis centers, as well … Read more

Violence against women in West Bengal: NCW asks state DGP to appear before it

Violence against women in West Bengal: NCW asks state DGP to appear before it

The National Commission for Women has sent a notice to the Director General of Police, West Bengal to appear before it in person on May 31 with complete action taken reports on incidents of alleged violence against women in the state after assembly polls. The NCW had set up an inquiry committee while taking suo … Read more