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India's 'Rebel Pornography'
Rebels in India's
north-eastern state of Tripura are making
pornographic films to raise money
for their separatist campaign, officials say. The
information has come from surrendered guerrillas of
the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT), according to
police.
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Kashmir women fight 'obscenity'
Eight veiled women gather outside a shop
selling alcohol on the ground floor of a hotel in
Srinagar, in Indian-administered Kashmir and start
ransacking it. 4-9-2005
Dirt poor treats girls better than filthy rich in India
The latest
figures released by Census 2001 dispel the belief that
poverty is responsible for gender-biased abortions and
show that the poor treat girls better than the rich.
3-9-2005
India: Call center employees caught in sex racket
Less than 100
metres from the Karaya police station, 27-year-old Jason
Anthony had been running a sex racket for the last
one-and-a-half years, operating out of three rented
apartments on the second floor of a building on 11 Tarak
Dutta Road. 3-9-2005
All-women separatist squads raid brothels in Kashmir
A hard-line
Islamic women's separatist group said on Tuesday it had
begun raiding brothels in Kashmir to stamp out "adultery
and the flesh-trade." 1-9-2005
Pakistani rape victim cheers grassroots democracy
Last week,
the women of a Pakistani village infamous for a gang
rape did something that gave the victim, Mukhtaran Mai,
hope for the future. They voted.
24-8-2005
Female foeticide must stop, says Indian PM
Observing that empowerment of women must
begin even before birth, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
said the "unacceptable crime" of female foeticide using
modern technology must be stopped.
24-8-2005
Born into brothel, son chronicles mother's profession
Move over
the stereotyped portrayals of sex workers in literature
and movies. Now a new book by the son of a sex worker
does a reality check on the life of women in the city's
mean streets. 24-8-2005
Victimised husbands seeking respite in India
While the Mahila police station is
empowered to deal with cases related to women, they are
at a loss when it comes to complaints from husbands.
24-8-2005
Six foreign restaurants sealed in Kabul
The Afghan government sealed six foreign
restaurants in the central capital for alleged
involvement in wine selling and other illicit practices.
Abdul Jabbar Sabit, Interior Ministry's legal advisor,
told Pajhwok Afghan News the ministry banned the
restaurants as these were used as prostitution dens.
23-8-2005
Improving life of sex workers in India
The Tamilnadu AIDS Initiative (TAI) will
soon launch a series of training programmes for sex
workers in the State in an effort to supplement their
income and better their living.
22-8-2005
Bahrain: Baker sheltered runaway housemaid for prostitution
A Baker
who allowed a prostitute to use his Muharraq flat to
meet clients has been jailed for six months. A runaway
housemaid who turned prostitute and operated out of the
flat has been jailed for three months.
22-8-2005
Sex obsession in Indian media garners call for rating system
Should
newspapers be classified on the basis of sexually
explicit material contained in them? A Public Interest
Litigation (PIL) raising this question was on Thursday
taken up for hearing by the Supreme Court.
18-8-2005
India: The road to ruin
Auntie Noorie, a middle-aged eunuch from
the hijra transgender community of Chennai - the huge
south Indian port-city - is in great demand. For the
loneliest of India's lonely hearts, there's no better
matchmaker. 17-8-2005
The first-ever Mr Afghanistan
Khosraw Basheri feverishly pumped iron
for years, toning his body so it rippled with muscle and
veins. His hard work paid off when he claimed a historic
title in his war-battered country - Mr Afghanistan.
16-8-2005
India's match making: Made in heaven or sex-driven?
As demure
25-year-old Nisha walked into the room under the
scrutinising gaze of strangers, little did she suspect
that this arranged marriage proposal would result in
much trauma a few months later.
16-8-2005
Maumbai dance bar owners to petition High Court against ban
Dance bar owners
in Maharashtra have decided to approach the Bombay High
Court on Tuesday to challenge the Government's decision
to shut such bars across the state on the grounds that
they promote prostitution.
15-8-2005
Sherawat video gets Indian police moving
While the police in United States and the
United Kingdom keep a special lookout for men hauling
rucksacks, in India, especially the metros, they have
been peering into people's cell phones.
12-8-2005
Bangladesh: Bleak future awaits sex workers' children
'Mother' is
the only identity the 70 children in this Dhaka shelter
home can claim and the lack of a father's name has
serious implications for their future, starting with the
fact that they are nor entitled to a birth certificate.
9-8-2005
Jaipur police bust porn MMS racket
Eight mobile phone dealers have been
arrested in Jaipur for running a pornographic MMS
(Multimedia Messaging Service) racket.
7-8-2005
Condom vending machines increasing sexual assaults on women?
The recent
publication of the UN report shows staggering figures on
the spread of AIDS and HIV world wide, which also
included India. The Indian Government thought it was
taking a very positive step by installing 'Anytime
Condom'. 6-8-2005
India: Raped by cops, disowned by parents
Sexually assaulted by those supposed to
uphold the law, this 16-year-old's now been left in the
lurch by those who she believed would stand by her - her
family. And just like the stain on khaki can't be washed
away, neither can her family's callous attitude.
3-8-2005
Escaping Pakistan
"Wake up,
it's time," my mom said, "Be very quiet." My hands
trembled as I dressed in the dark, putting on the one
pair of jeans I owned. It felt odd after so many years
of wearing the traditional Pakistani shalwar kameez. My
sister looked at me bewildered, still half-asleep.
"What's going on?". 2-8-2005
Mumbai bar girls heading for Jaipur?
Jaipur may soon turn out to be the refuge
of Mumbai's bar girls who were rendered jobless after a
ban on their trade by the Maharashtra government in
March. 1-8-2005
India: Jharkhand girls defy odds and law, get married
Gaining
ground for gay rights in India, two young women in a
Jharkhand village defied society and law to get married
in a ceremony approved and arranged for by their family
members. 29-7-2005
Is Hindi cinema becoming more uninhibited?
In two
recent releases, Kya Kool Hain Hum and Bachke Rehna Re
Baba, all stops seem to have been pulled out to
titillate the audiences with raunchy acts.
29-7-2005
Mumbai's dance bars shut down, ending livelihood of thousands
Dance bars
in Maharashtra have begun downing their shutters in the
wake of the passing of bill to this effect in the
Maharashtra State Assembly last week. The move is likely
to cause immense hardship for both dance bar owners and
employees who face an uncertain future.
27-7-2005
South India's Pradesh installs condom vending machines for safe sex
South
India's Kerala Pradesh government decided to install 100
condom vending machines in three cities as an effort to
stress on safe sex, Indo-Asian News Service reported
Monday. 27-7-2005
Dance bar owners to challenge ban in court
Owners of thousands of dance bars in
Maharashtra have decided to legally challenge the
Government's contentious decision to shut them down on
the grounds that they promote prostitution.
24-7-2005
Expatriates in Gulf are more vulnerable to HIV/AIDS: expert
The provincial
AIDS control programme in collaboration with the World
Health Organization (WHO) is aimed at creating awareness
in the province and its adjacent tribal areas about
HIV/AIDS. 24-7-2005
Sex bomb Mallika Sherawat grieves
Being a sex symbol does not mean losing
one's dignity. This is what Mallika Sherawat, the
successful star of Murder has said. She is hurt that
some cyber miscreants have morphed her head with another
body and shown her as having sex with a white man.
23-7-2005
'Family pushed me into prostitution'
A 19-year-old
Bahraini prostitute claimed she was
encouraged to sell herself for sex by her mother, her
ex-husband and her 25-year-old brother-in-law. She
described them as her "pimps" and said they
collected money from her clients, who paid up to BD100
(approx. $265 USD) a time to sleep with her.
19-7-2005
Indian cinema examines gay and lesbian themes
A city known
for film literacy and great directors like Satyajit Ray,
Ritwik Ghatak and Mrinal Sen this eastern metropolis
witnessed something unique recently - a film award
instituted on the theme of gay rights.
15-7-2005
Should India legalise porn?
Mallika can take recourse to the law to
scuttle the controversial MMS currently doing the
rounds. But isn't watching it, peddling it, already
illegal? So what's the best she can do? Ignore it. Says
Shobhaa De: "The Mallika issue will eventually play
itself out. 15-7-2005
Pakistani man cuts feet off 'promiscuous' wife
A Pakistani man and some of his relatives
chopped off his wife's feet after accusing her of being
promiscuous. The woman survived the gruesome attack, the
latest in a wave of assaults that have raised
international concern about the plight of women in rural
Pakistan. 15-7-2005
Bartered brides & marriages of convenience
She
hesitates to speak much but her poignant eyes say it
all. She is quite young, but with a faded salwar kameez
and a dupatta covering her head, she appears haggard and
much older. 14-7-2005
Afghanistan: Child marriage still widespread
Kabul - The United Nations, government
officials and rights bodies in the Afghan capital,
Kabul, have expressed grave concern about the widespread
practice of girls marrying early, as the country marked
World Population Day on Tuesday.
14-7-2005
India: Female rebels flee hideouts after sexual abuse by commanders
Two women, Meenaxi Debbarma and Rajlakshmi Debbarma, both
in their early 20s, joined a rebel force in the
restive northeastern Indian state of Tripura four years ago with the
dream of carving out a tribal homeland through
armed struggle. 13-7-2005
Child prostitution thrives in Peshawar
Children continue to serve as prostitutes
in Pakistan's Peshawar city despite raids and a strict
vigil by the police. 13-7-2005
Delhi youth high on booze and sex: Report
A recently conducted research among youth
of Bhopal and New Delhi has brought to light their
awareness on issues of sexuality and sexual health and
has revealed that steps need to be taken to bridge the
existing knowledge gap.
9-7-2005
Smiles replace anxiety for Pakistani rape victim
Mukhtar Mai
looked anxious when she came to the Supreme Court in
Islamabad on Monday, accompanied by her lawyer Aitzaz
Ahsan and friend Naseem Akhtar.
8-7-2005
New Pakistan rape suspects held
Police in Pakistan say that they have
arrested five men for a suspected revenge gang-rape of a
married woman. The men allegedly kidnapped and raped the
woman because of an affair one of her relatives was said
to have had with a sister of one of the suspects.
8-7-2005
British Indian parents often travel back home to abort unwanted female fetuses
An
Indian paediatrician in Britain, Dr. Sudhir Sethi, has
recently hit the headlines in Britain by claiming that
it is dangerous to tell Indian parents to be what sex
their unborn child is.
6-7-2005
Police file formal charges in Imrana rape case
The police on
Monday filed chargesheet against Ali Mohammed, the main
accused in the Imrana rape case, with details of the
victims's recorded statement and accounts of more than
12 witnesses, including her family members.
6-7-2005
Uzbek held in Indian prostitution case
Three call girls, one of them an Uzbek,
were arrested from Vasant Vihar in southwest Delhi on
Sunday. According to the police, these women charged as
much as Rs 20,000 for a night and catered to clients
only in five-star hotels.
4-7-2005
Mumbai's bar show goes on, for now
Hundreds of thousands of women who sing
and dance in the bars of the western Indian state of
Maharashtra are likely celebrating the survival of their
means of livelihood. On Thursday the governor returned
unsigned an ordinance intended to ban the dance bars.
28-6-2005
Vibrating condoms touted in India
With growing HIV menace and population
stabilisation far away, the government is contemplating
introduction of "vibratory condoms" to increase the
acceptability of the devices which can provide dual
protection from infection and unwanted pregnancies.
28-6-2005
India's dancing girls win ban delay
Tens of thousands of dancing girls in
India's financial and film capital of Bombay have won a
delay against a government decision to close them down.
State governor S.M. Krishna, has refused to approve the
move for now, saying in a statement on Friday he saw "no
immediate reason" to do so.
27-6-2005
India: College says mini skirt ban helps stop rape
Bombay
University officials say they would prefer to see women
students in a traditional salwar-kameez - a loose tunic
top worn over baggy trousers - with no deep neckline.
27-6-2005
Sex
and the youth: Ignorance is still bliss
Adolescence is a stage when reproductive
health is a major issue of concern, but surprisingly
puberty remains an alien concept for a large number of
city teens. A study conducted by a city hospital has in
fact shown that around 60 per cent of city youth are
ignorant about the onset of puberty and related changes.
27-6-2005
Onus on victims in Pakistan
A Pakistani policeman charged with raping
a teenaged girl in a police station has been charged
under a controversial religious law that carries the
death penalty - but which could also enable him to walk
free. 23-6-2005
Rape of Bollywood's rich and famous
An Indian author is making a film about
the gang rape of his mother, a well-known 1970s model,
to show victims are not just the poor and powerless as
the country comes to terms with a series of brutal rapes
in recent months. 22-6-2005
Wife snatched by prostitution gang Bahrain
Police
rescued a wife who was snatched off the street by a gang
that threatened to force her into prostitution unless
her husband paid a BD300 ransom (about $790 USD). The
Bangladeshi couple were walking near the Middle East
Hotel in Manama at around 8pm on Friday when she was
dragged into a car.
21-6-2005
Erotic verse sheds light on 'playboy Lama'
The publication of a new translation of
the erotic poetry of the sixth Dalai Lama - who rejected
monastic orders and indulged his passion for women and
wine - has given new insight into this controversial
figure of religious history.
20-6-2005
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