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Ignoring Sexual Abuse of Disabled Children Shows India’s Lack of Commitment
Categorized as Op-eds | Tagged underIt is a reality that children with disabilities are doubly at risk of sexual abuse. The lack of proper data with relevant authorities in... View Resource
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Disabled Bodies Navigating Abuse & Violence: #DisabledWomenRiot
Categorized as Op-eds | Tagged underWomen with disabilities face non-traditional and not easily recognisable forms of abuse where the perpetrator is most often someone we are dependent on for... View Resource
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‘Invisible Victims’ of Violence: A Gender and Disability Perspective of Coronavirus in India
Categorized as Op-eds | Tagged underThe outbreak of COVID-19 has led to an unprecedented rise in the cases of domestic violence. Women with disabilities are located at such a... View Resource
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Forced sterilisation on women and girls with disabilities is against law
Categorized as Op-eds | Tagged underDespite laws, there are instances of forced sterilisations in India on women and girls with disabilities and the reason given is menstrual hygiene management and... View Resource
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Police accused of forcing woman to marry man who allegedly raped her in Tamil Nadu
Categorized as Op-eds | Tagged underThe state body for the differently abled has sought a report from the police in the Krishnagiri district. Published on 10th June, 2021 View Resource
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Landmark Ruling in India for Survivors of Sexual Abuse with Disabilities
Categorized as Op-eds | Tagged underWhen she was 13, Razia (not her real name), who has an intellectual disability and difficulties in speaking, was raped by her brother’s tutor in... View Resource
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How News Media Ignores The Disability Aspect Of Survivors Of Sexual Assault
Categorized as Op-eds | Tagged underThis article is part of the #GBVInMedia for the 16 Days Of Activism global campaign to end gender-based violence. #GBVInMedia campaign analysis how different... View Resource
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Urvashi Bahuguna’s memoir of mental illness shares and bares her affliction, and talks of hope
Categorized as Op-eds | Tagged underThe essays in ‘No Straight Thing Was Ever Made’ draw from her earlier book of poems, but now the illness follows the author everywhere.... View Resource
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Women with disabilities: Erased as individuals, invisible as a group
Teased, taunted, looked down upon, and spoken about instead of spoken to, women with disabilities experience the combined disadvantages associated with both gender and... View Resource
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An open letter to our deaf daughter from Palwal
Saudamini Pethe, a law student and activist for the deaf community, who is Deaf herself, writes an open letter to the minor who was... View Resource