New Delhi: Even after four episodes, Aamir Khan's television show 'Satyamev Jayate' is high on the popularity chart. While most of the Bollywood celebrities are seen hosting game shows and reality shows on TV, Aamir is being appreciated for talking about important social issues on his show. Episode four of 'Satyamev Jayate' was based on medical malpractices. Highly upset with Aamir, Indian Medical Association (IMA) has demanded an immediate apology...
10:47 AM, Jun 03, 2012
Child sexual abuse is a grave matter. Being a parent myself, I find that my one mission in life is to save my child from ...
01:44 PM, May 23, 2012
Just three days before the much talked about episode of the Aamir Khan hosted Satyamev Jayate on child sexual abuse, the Rajya Sabha passed The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Bill, 2011. The Bill seeks to protect children from sexual abuse with provision for setting up special courts for speedy trial and stringent punishment including life sentence for committing sexual assault on minors under the age of 16. Here...
06:47 PM, May 14, 2012
New Delhi: Aamir Khan's show 'Satyamev Jayate' is just two episodes old, but the show is getting very good response from the common viewers as well as celebrities, however some of the facts revealed on the show are shocking. The report that Aamir Khan and his guests quoted from, is 'Study on Child Abuse: India 2007' by the Women and Child Development Ministry. The study is a detailed analysis of...
01:13 PM, May 14, 2012
New Delhi: Whom does a child turn to when the one he trusts with all of his tiny heart turns abuser? In a nut-shell, the second episode of Aamir Khan's television show Satyamev Jayate was simply heart-breaking. It brought out a common but rarely talked-about scourge of society - the sexual abuse of children - often by people they trust the most. Aamir spoke to several such victims, their family...
01:46 PM, May 13, 2012
New Delhi: In a shocker from Gurgaon, the caretaker of an NGO-run shelter has been arrested for allegedly raping, filming and threatening the minor girls who stayed there. This after the victims' teacher alerted the authorities. A team from the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) conducted a raid on Saturday. This is the second such case to come to light in Gurgaon in the last three months...
12:57 PM, May 06, 2012
The Union Cabinet has cleared a new law which aims to protect children from sexual abuse. ...
11:30 PM, May 02, 2012
Chandigarh: Just hours after the Cabinet on Thursday approved the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Bill, a shocking story emerged from Chandigarh where a boy was sexually abused by a group of youngsters. An 8-year-old boy was sexually abused allegedly for several days by a group of youngsters. The accused also made an MMS of the incident and circulated it among their friends. All six of the accused, of...
09:27 AM, Apr 27, 2012
Kabul: For Afghan women, the act of fleeing domestic abuse, forced prostitution or even being stabbed repeatedly with a screwdriver by an abusive husband, may land them in jail while their abusers walk free, Human Rights Watch said. Running away is considered a "moral crime" for women in Afghanistan while some rape victims are also imprisoned, because sex outside marriage - even when the woman is forced - is considered...
02:09 PM, Mar 28, 2012
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11:26 AM, Mar 27, 2012
Ohio: A 10-year-old boy shook when asked about being prostituted to two other men by an adoptive father who regularly had sex with him, according to police, who said the boy was fearful of talking because he didn't want to be taken from his home or separated from his new siblings. The adoptive father has been charged with raping three boys in his care and compelling prostitution by hiring the...
01:12 PM, Mar 02, 2012
Jaipur: In a shocking and bizarre incident in Jaipur, the police have arrested a 21-year-old paraplegic woman over charges of abuse. The police claim the woman is involved in the kidnapping and sexual abuse of another woman. What is shocking is that the 21-year old herself is allegedly a victim of sexual abuse by three Rajasthan policemen. Her parents alleged that she was being falsely implicated in another case so...
11:15 AM, Mar 02, 2012
New York: A US court has convicted three members of an Indian family here on charges of sexually abusing their daughter-in-law who came to America after an arranged marriage and was threatened to work as a slave. Rockland County District Attorney Thomas Zugibe said Vishal Jagota, 34, his mother Parveen Jagota, 57 and sister Rajani Jagota, 31 were found guilty after a bench trial of labour trafficking and assault charges...
12:26 PM, Feb 28, 2012
New York: An Indian pediatrician in New York has been charged with sexually exploiting some of his young female patients and secretly videotaping and photographing them in his clinic. Rakesh Punn, 53, has pleaded not guilty to the charges in a 36-count indictment, which also include healthcare fraud, at his arraignment before US District Judge Joanna Seybert. If convicted, Punn faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years' imprisonment and...
04:45 PM, Jan 13, 2012
Hyderabad: A cruel and medieval tradition of poor Dalit girls, forcefully married off to the village deity and then sexually abused by the men in the village, still continues in Andhra Pradesh. But there is one woman standing up to it. Grace Nirmala helps rescue these girls and runs a home for joginis and their children. Anjali was just 10 years of age when her parents forced her to become...
08:48 AM, Aug 08, 2011
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