Why Politicians Ignore Abuses in India’s Sugar Industry: They . . . In the sweltering sugar fields of the western Indian state of Maharashtra, abusive practices such as debt bondage and child labor have long been an open secret But in 2019, a state lawmaker named Neelam Gorhe documented a new level of brutality: Female workers were getting unnecessary hysterectomies at alarmingly high rates
Anti-rape laws: How many States passed them and have they . . . Sexual offences against men and transgender people may be added later, Union officials have said This Bill, along with the other two criminal laws, was signed into law by President Murmu and is
Counselling, legal aid, shelter: One-stop centres come to . . . Nearly a decade after it was set up in the first phase of the Central government’s ‘one stop centre’ scheme, meant to provide services under one roof to support and aid women facing violence or abuse, the centre in one of the bylanes of Madhya Pradesh’s Indore tackles thousands of cases each year, majority of them being complaints of