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United efforts required to end violence against people with disabilities
Categorized as Op-eds | Tagged underWomen and girls with disabilities are up to ten times more likely to experience violence than their non-disabled peers. By: Andrea M. Wojnar View Resource
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Urban Women with Disabilities: Insights Into Living, Dating, Working, and Enjoying Life
Categorized as Op-eds | Tagged underMost women living with a disability in India often face a double whammy – one due to their disability, and second due to the... View Resource
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Mumbai: Special court denies bail to physiotherapist arrested for repeated sexual assault on patient with intellectual disability
Categorized as Op-eds | Tagged underExtra Joint Special Judge Anis A J Khan said in the order that while granting bail, the court is required to see the gravity... View Resource
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It Has Never Been The Effort Of Courts To Make Death Penalty Redundant Or Non Existent : Supreme Court
Categorized as Op-eds | Tagged underWhile upholding the death sentence awarded to a man for the rape and murder of a seven and a half year old girl who... View Resource
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Why It Is Hard For Disabled Women, Queer Persons To Leave Abusive Partners
Categorized as Op-eds | Tagged underReema*, 32, has been married for about five years but the man she thought would be her life partner has turned out to be... View Resource
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How Delhi police botched the investigation into a disabled child’s rape
Categorized as Op-eds | Tagged underThe court hearing the 2016 case acquitted the sole accused in April while slamming the police for its ‘sloppy’, ‘shoddy’ and ‘below par’ work.... View Resource
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1 in 3 children with disabilities globally have experienced violence in their lifetimes
Categorized as Op-eds | Tagged underChildren and adolescents (aged 0-18 years) with disabilities experience physical, sexual, and emotional violence, and neglect at considerably higher rates than those without disability,... View Resource
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Women Disabled Due to Domestic Abuse Can Now Claim Financial Aid in Madhya Pradesh
Categorized as Op-eds | Tagged underPeople who experienced permanent disability due to domestic abuse will be entitled to monetary and infrastructural support, according to a new scheme the Madhya Pradesh government... View Resource
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India’s Laws Fail To Uphold Abortion Rights Of Women With Disabilities
Categorized as Op-eds | Tagged underArpita Roy Sengupta was 22 years old when her parents, much against her wishes, arranged her marriage in 2007 with Alok*, a deaf person... View Resource
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‘How Will You Manage?’ How Disabled Women Are Forced Into Surgical Procedures
Categorized as Op-eds | Tagged underNearly a decade ago, Smitha*, who lives with cerebral palsy, underwent a surgery to remove fibroids from her uterus. The doctors, at the time,... View Resource