Entries Tagged as 'Gender'

Friday, August 22nd, 2008 Posted by Rasheeda Bhagat

Sexual harassment ‘necessary’, rules Russian judge

The  recent ruling by a Russian judge that sexual harrassment at the workplace is not only acceptable, but necesssary “for the survival of the human race”, has, predictably, got an explosion of responses from various blogs.
Recently a 22-year-old advertising professional in russia moved a court compalining that her 47-year-old boss had locked her out of […]


Friday, August 15th, 2008 Posted by Rasheeda Bhagat

Five women buried alive in Pakistan

If you thought our criminalised politicians of Bihar or Uttar Pradesh were a blot on our nation, you need to read about how the brother of a Pakistani minister in Balochistan buried five women alive. The human remains of the five women who have been desecrated by wild animals and the government has done nothing to provide a decent burial […]