Tag Archives: India
Sex-selective abortions on the rise in India
TweetAccording to new study published this week in the medical journal The Lancet, the number of sex-selective abortions being performed in India has been rising and continues to rise. The researchers estimate that between 4 million and 12 million sex-selective abortions have been performed in India in the last three decades. And in the past [...]
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Indian rape victims undergo “finger test”
TweetTrigger warning As Broadsheet contends, it is as awful as it sounds: A Human Rights Watch report explains that the archaic test “involves a doctor inserting fingers in a rape victim’s vagina to determine the presence or absence of the hymen and the so-called ‘laxity’ of the vagina.” Hospitals have medical examination forms with “columns [...]
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Public shaming incident under investigation in India
TweetA woman in India was allegedly forced to walk naked for six miles through three villages because she had engaged in an “illicit love affair.” As if that on its own isn’t horrifying enough, the incident was caught on a cell phone camera. via BBC. Critics say that it was only after mobile phone clips [...]
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Lunch time dance party: “Chammak Challo”