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Topic: Domestic abuse

Domestic violence cases soar in Ukraine after Russia’s invasion, says coroner’s report

Police registered 349,355 cases of domestic violence from January to May 2023, compared with 231,244 over the same period in 2022 and 190,277 in the first five months of 2021.

‘Beatings, burns & confinement’: Parents of Dwarka domestic help narrate 10-year-old’s trauma

10-yr-old rescued from employers’ house with swollen eyes & wounds is one of many victims of child labour & abuse. Parents say don't want money, were told she'd 'have a good life'.

Cruelty by husbands and their relatives makes up one-third of crimes against women in India: MoSPI

India recorded 22.8 lakh crimes against women between 2016 to 2021, of which about 7 lakh, or 30 per cent, were under Section 498A of IPC, says MoSPI report, released this month.

Kids not safe with dad, give us custody, plead kin of Sikh woman who died by suicide in US

Mandeep Kaur married Ranjodhbir Singh Sandhu in India in 2015. Last month, she hanged herself at her US home after posting a video about her husband's alleged domestic abuse.

#MeToo isn’t dead. Johnny Depp-Amber Heard trial shows it needs an upgrade

Campus Voice is an initiative by ThePrint where young Indians get an opportunity to express their opinions on a prevalent issue.

‘Beaten up, bound for days, tortured’ — Assam worker accuses Haryana IPS, wife of bonded labour

The worker, a native of Mangaldoi, said she was tortured between March 2021 and February this year at IPS officer’s Panchkula residence. She is under treatment at Safdarjung Hospital.

How Hothur Shadab Wahab’s foundation is helping survivors of gender-based violence

With the #HothurEmpowers initiative, Hothur Foundation aims to not just help the abused, but educate people & children at the grassroots level, provide them employment & mentor them psychologically.

‘Don’t want to live like a victim’ — How a women’s adalat in UP is empowering survivors of abuse

Chingari Adalat set up in UP's Banda in 2019 is teaching women to challenge societal norms that tell them to "adjust" to suffering, and giving them the voice to demand justice.

Increased work, domestic abuse — how Covid lockdown was especially hard on women in India

New Delhi: The Covid-19 pandemic significantly altered people's lives and most significantly family dynamics. The nationwide lockdown, imposed in March last year, was especially difficult...

After dad claims ‘threat to life from family’, Shehla Rashid reveals tale of domestic abuse

Abdul Rashid Shora wrote to J&K Police DGP asking for security cover, but Shehla Rashid says it was his way of responding to a restraining order from a court.

On Camera

DPDP Act will change how we interact with the internet. Get ready for the consent mails

India does not have a data protection regulator to make good on the DPDP Act’s promise and articulate clear future standards.

At Charcha 2025: Local entrepreneurship, not just big IT, will drive next wave of distributed AI work

While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.

US pilot says his team pulled out of Dubai Air Show after Tejas crash out of respect for IAF pilot

Taylor ‘Fema’ Hiester, commander of USAF F-16 Viper Demo Team, hit out at air show organisers for continuing with the show after Wing Commander Namansh Syal lost his life in the incident.

A tribute to Tejas. India’s delay culture is the real enemy in the skies

It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.