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Women’s Cricket Is Rife With Stories of Sexual Harassment. What Is the BCCI Doing?

With the kind of wealth available in Indian cricket and the lack of safeguards, there is no estimating what a more accurate number of cricketers facing harassment by their superiors—coaches, selectors, officials—may be. Women cricketers who have left the game are able to draw a clearer picture, but on condition of revealing neither their names nor the states they represented.

thewire.in/sport/womens-cricke

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Dalit professor at BHU accuses two colleagues and two students of assault, molestation

The professor alleged that the police filed a case over three months after the incident occurred.

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The Indian Express - Dalit teenager in MP beaten to death by men accused by his sister of harassment

Dalit teenager in MP beaten to death by men accused by his sister of harassment

According to police, the accused beat the 18-year-old to death with sticks and then damaged portions of his family’s house. The incident took place on Thursday.

indianexpress.com/article/indi

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Telegraph India - Supreme Court allows rape survivor to terminate pregnancy, says conception outside marriage injurious

Supreme Court allows rape survivor to terminate pregnancy, says conception outside marriage injurious

The top court expressed displeasure over Gujarat High Court adjourning the survivor's plea and said 'valuable time' has been lost during pendency of the matter.

telegraphindia.com/india/supre

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"I Fell, Sister-In-Law Ran With My Sons": Another Manipur Gang-Rape Horror

A 37-year-old married woman from Manipur's Churachandpur district alleged she was caught by a group of men - while she was fleeing from her burning house with her two sons, niece and sister-in-law - and gang-raped on May 3.

TW: descriptions of rape

ndtv.com/india-news/i-fell-sis

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Women’s bodies, disinformation and nationalism in Manipur

Sexual violence in conflict has a long and terrible history – and its combination with disinformation and nationalism in Manipur makes for an especially ominous mix.

himalmag.com/women-disinformat

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Scroll.in - Feminist icons or violent vigilantes? The contentious role of Meira Paibis in Manipur’s conflict

Feminist icons or violent vigilantes? The contentious role of Meira Paibis in Manipur’s conflict

Celebrated for long as the torchbearers of Manipur, Meitei women groups now stand accused of blocking the army and egging on violence against Kuki-Zo women.

scroll.in/article/1053761/femi

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“The video hurts so much, I cannot find the words”

The family of the women in the Manipur video recounts its ordeal.

TW: descriptions of rape

caravanmagazine.in/conflict/ma

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13.13 lakh girls, women went missing between 2019 and 2021: Govt data

The government also informed Parliament that it has taken a number of initiatives for the safety of women across the country.

thehindu.com/news/national/131

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India's Internet Shutdowns Hurt Women More, Manipur Assaults Show

"If there was no internet shutdown, those videos would have surfaced over two months ago and the horror could have been addressed speedily," said editor of Shillong Times Patricia Mukhim.

thewire.in/security/indias-int

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CBI takes over Manipur sexual assault case investigation

CBI takes over Manipur sexual assault case investigation

The Central Bureau of Investigation is already probing six cases related to violence in Manipur.

thehindu.com/news/national/cbi

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On Camera, BSF Jawan Gropes Woman In Manipur Store, Suspended

The footage from a CCTV camera inside the store showed a man in uniform and carrying an INSAS rifle groping a woman.

ndtv.com/india-news/on-camera-

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BBC News - Manipur: The women facing the fire of the conflict

Manipur assault video emboldens women to speak out

New allegations of violence against women are emerging in the north-east Indian state of Manipur, as the response to a viral video showing two women being paraded naked by a mob encourages others to speak.

TW: descriptions of rape

bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-

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Outlook - Why Host Countries Must Adopt Policies To Support Refugee Women And Girls

Why Host Countries Must Adopt Policies To Support Refugee Women And Girls

Host countries must adopt policies that support refugee women and girls who often have to face sexual violence and abuse during displacement.

outlookindia.com/national/a-sa

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More cases of women being assaulted surface in Manipur

After the video of the Thoubal incident, a photo of a woman’s charred body is now in circulation; 10 Manipur legislators issue statement mentioning at least four other incidents of rape or murder.

thehindu.com/news/national/wom

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Video of Kuki women: NCW ignored complaint about it submitted 38 days ago

A complaint filed on June 12 had also detailed other instances of rape and violence from Manipur.

newslaundry.com/2023/07/20/vid

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'Police Drove Kuki Women Towards Meitei Mob': Villagers Recount Manipur Horror

"In Lamka, your people raped my people, so we are going to do the same to you people," the mob told a woman witness.

TW: descriptions of rape

thequint.com/gender/kuki-women

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Seventy-Nine Days After Violence Broke Out, Narendra Modi Finally Talks About Manipur

Even now, though, he refused to comment on Manipur alone – and brought up two Congress-ruled states which have seen no similar scale of violence of late in the very same sentence.

thewire.in/politics/seventy-ni

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Manipur Video: CM Biren Says '100s of Similar Cases' Happened; SC Takes Cognisance

In an interview with a TV channel, Biren said, 'You should not listen to allegations but look at the ground reality. Hundreds of such incidents have happened, that is why internet is banned.'

thewire.in/rights/manipur-vide

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‘If you don’t take off your clothes, we will kill you’: Kuki women paraded naked in Manipur

One of them, a 21-year-old woman, was ‘brutally gang raped’, a police complaint says. The police confirm an FIR has been filed.

TW: rape

scroll.in/article/1052938/vide

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