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Man Booked For Stalking 19-Year-Old Hearing-Impaired Woman
Categorized as News Reports | Tagged under crimeThe woman told the police that the man would wait at the spot where she would board her school bus and while returning home... View Resource
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Violence and disabled women
A more inclusive and diverse understanding of sex is bringing queer theory together with a disability-rights discourse to legitimise what was previously considered ‘deviant’... View Resource
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Sexual assault of disabled women: Getting the law right
Simply increasing the punishment or shifting the burden of proof to the accused, without making sure that the testimony of the prosecutrix is taken... View Resource
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Not a ‘safe’ issue: Disabled women and sexual violence
Disability groups have not been part of the heated debates on making sexual offences gender-neutral or gender-specific. But making sexual assault gender-neutral for both... View Resource
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The women’s movement must do more for disabled women
Disabled women are crowded out in both the disability movement and the women’s movement, says Anita Ghai. Feminists, she says, have failed to recognise... View Resource
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Out of sight, out of mind
Even as the country acknowledges that the disabled must be integrated into the mainstream educational system, a study in Kolkata reveals that 50% of... View Resource
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Women with disabilities come together: Dependence makes it harder to speak up
Categorized as News Reports | Tagged under crimeA study, in 12 districts of Odisha covering a sample of 729 women with disabilities, showed that 12.6 per cent of the physically disabled... View Resource
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Gender based Violence Kenya Ethiopia
Gender Based Violence, Women with Disabilities and Access to Justice: Ethiopia and Kenya By Mahider Mulugeta Habtemariam, Central European University, November 2015 View Resource
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Recording the testimony of witness unable to communicate verbally: What Bombay HC held
Categorized as News Reports | Tagged under legalArticle published on June 30th 2019 View Resource
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Of Stigma and Sterilization: The Layered Stigmatization of Women With Disabilities
Categorized as Op-eds | Tagged underOver the millennia, society has remained preoccupied with the fertility of a woman. This bodes particularly ill for women with disabilities (WWD), for they... View Resource