#MeToo: India’s domestic workers are sending Smriti Irani postcards demanding safe workplaces
Sexual harassment laws to protect women in the informal sector are poorly implemented. Anirudh Ashar, Kimberly Pereira
“As a woman domestic worker, I want a safe workplace.”
Nearly 3,000 domestic workers in India mailed postcards with this request over the last few weeks to Smriti Irani, India’s minister in charge of women and child development.
With this act, the women reaffirmed their place in the global #MeToo movement, speaking out against violence and harassment at work. Most Indian women are employed in the informal sector. They had long remained largely invisible when the #MeToo hashtag, coined by United States activist Tarana Burke, exploded on social media in 2017.
Bhanwari Devi is alive: Accused Indira Bishnoi to court
Bhanwari Devi is alive: Accused Indira Bishnoi to court
In A New Twist To The Sensational Bhanwari Devi Murder Case, Accused Indira Bishnoi On Saturday Told A Court That She Is Alive And Living In Bengaluru. PTI | Updated on: 10 Jun 2017, 08:50:01 PM
Jodhpur:
In a new twist to the sensational Bhanwari Devi murder case, accused Indira Bishnoi on Saturday told a court that she is alive and living in Bengaluru.
The councel for Bishnoi, who was arrested on June 3 from Madhya Pradesh’s Dewas, supported her claim saying the bones recovered from a canal by the CBI were not of Bhanwari and that the forensic report was not conclusive on this.
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Twitter Is Buzzing With News Alerts From India And Rest Of The World. Here Are The Latest Updates From The Micro-blogging Site In One Scroll
News Nation Bureau | Edited By : Vivek Arya | Updated on: 03 Jun 2017, 10:58:12 PM
New Delhi:
Twitter is buzzing with news alerts from India and rest of the world. Here are the latest updates from the micro-blogging site in one scroll:
Rajasthan: Elderly, Physically Infirm Prisoners Languish in Closed Prisons Against Rules
Although rules specify that the nature of crime should not be the criteria to deny the transfer of a prisoner to an open-air prison, over 50% of prisoners in the state are being confined to closed prisons following the skewed logic.
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New Delhi: Despite elderly and physically-infirm prisoners posing little or no threat to the society, and various courts repeatedly laying down that the conduct of the prisoners and not the nature of their offence should be the criteria for determining if they are eligible to be sent to open prisons, recent data submitted before the Rajasthan high court by the state government has revealed non-adherence to these directions.