In September 2024, InkSights had turned its lens on the rape and murder of a young trainee doctor at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital. Here we are, two years later, with a strong feeling of deja vu.
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Another rape. Same old solution.
Another rape. Same old solution. Lock up the women. Give them a list of things they must not do, in addition to all the safety precautions they've already been following. Unsafe at home. Unsafe at work. Unsafe on the streets. If every woman, no matter the age, has...
Should the identity of a rape victim/survivor be disclosed? Advocate Vrinda Grover unpacks the law
By Editors Even as social media is flooded with photographs, videos and reels disclosing the identity of the doctor who was recently raped and murdered on the hospital in Kolkata where she worked, Vrinda Grover (Advocate, Supreme Court of India), kindly responded to...
All-women police team arrests rape-accused politician Prajwal Revanna
Nearly a month after he left India after videos of him, allegedly sexually abusing scores of women came out, suspended JD(S) MP Prajwal Revanna returned to Bengaluru on Friday, May 31. In a move he may not have anticipated, women officers from the Special...
“Protect Privacy of Survivor of Rape”: NWMI
The Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI) deplores the attempt to harass and intimidate the family of a minor rape survivor by Samsul Rehman, a stringer from the Guwahati-based DY365 news channel and Amar Asom newspaper. According to information received by the...
NWMI stands with WCC, condemns aggression of male journalists at recent press conference
NWMI (Network of Women in Media, India) extends its unstinting support to the Women in Cinema Collective (WCC) of the Malayalam film industry in its relentless crusade to seek justice for a Malayalam actor who was sexually assaulted in February 2017. WCC has been fighting against the apathy of the Association of Malayalam Movie Artistes (AMMA) in Kerala, that has reinstated actor Dileep who is accused of masterminding the assault on the survivor (Dileep was suspended from AMMA following his arrest last year but was arbitrarily reinstated when he got out on bail this year).
The “Tarun Tejpal Tapes” affair: NWMI responds to Seema Mustafa and Manu Joseph
The NWMI’s letters to the Press Council of India and the Editors’ Guild of India, and other critiques of recent media coverage of what is being referred to as “The Tarun Tejpal Tapes”, have elicited responses from the authors of the controversial articles.
NWMI protests against unethical and illegal media coverage of Tehelka case
The NWMI has sent strong letters of protest to the Press Council of India and the Editors’ Guild of India about two recent articles on the Tehelka case, based on CCTV footage, which disregard the law as well as journalistic ethics.
NWMI expresses shock and anger at gang-rape of woman journalist in UP
The Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI) is shocked and upset about the reported gang-rape of a woman journalist in Mirzapur district of Uttar Pradesh on Thursday. The journalist was reportedly abducted by three persons after she had visited the Ashtabhuja temple...
NWMI condemns gang rape of woman journalist in Mumbai and demands safety for women media professionals
The Network of Women in Media, India, (NWMI) is shocked and angry at the alleged gangrape of a woman journalist and the assault on her male colleague in the evening of August 22, 2013 while they were on assignment for a print publication near the Shakti Mills compound...
NWM Kerala takes up the Suryanelli case
Kerala NWM takes up the Suryanelli case