Rape and death—It`s been a chilling month for Pakistan thus far. A seven-year-old girl named Zainab disappeared on January 4th and was later found dead in a field of waste after friends and family desperately committed in their search for her. Her parents, who were in Saudi Arabia at the […]
The Supreme Court of India has officially ratified a rule that nullifies a clause that enables men to have sexual intercourse with girls 18 and under if they were married to them. Governing bodies have declared that the clause is “discriminatory, capricious, and arbitrary”, and “violates the bodily integrity of the girl child”. Unfortunately, […]
Violence against women has always been a huge problem in India, but recently the statistics have been escalating at an even more alarming rate. To combat (literally) the issue, Bollywood actress Bipasha Basu is planning on opening a number of self-defense schools in Mumbai, Delhi and Kolkata. The goal is […]
