Rape

Image: “Maryam”  by Jordanian artist Rand Abdelnur, courtesy of  the Artisana Gallery in Amman, Jordan. Ms. X (name withheld), is residing at the Special Residential Safe House of Refuge Seekers situated at Mirihana in Nugegoda Police Division, Colombo District, under the direct supervision of the Mirihana Headquarters Police Station, has been raped by police officer in charge of […]

The Vidhya prosecution differed from the Krishanthi Kumaraswamy prosecution… ( Photo: A protest held against the killing of Krishanthi Kumaraswamyin in Colombo; credit Sunday Times) In midst of an impossible muddle of governance in Colombo, the handing down of the death sentence to the accused in the Sivaloganathan Vithya rape and murder case by a […]

Multan, July 27 (Reuters): Pakistani police have arrested 25 members of an informal village council accused of ordering the rape of a 16-year-old girl as revenge for her brother’s alleged sexual assault of another girl. The Supreme Court also requested a report on the case, which echoed a notorious case from 2002 in which another […]

 by Nick Reilly in discover This is the ‘Still Not Asking For It’ photo series by photographer Rory Banwell. And it’s taking a brilliant stand against sexual assault and the so-called rape culture in Australia. The photographs show a series of men and women standing topless with black tape covering their nipples alongside powerful messages scrawled on […]

While all over the world women celebrate International Women’s Day ON 08th March Women’s Action Group has declared the March 08 as a Dark Day and month of March as Dark March. The full press release: “Let us all declare this International Women’s Day, the 8th of March, and the full Month of March, as […]

As women’s rights groups and activists mark International Women’s Day tomorrow (8th) and the month of March as ‘Dark March’[1], we hope that we can take a long, hard, reflective look at ourselves and our actions and decide to join the long, hard struggle to end violence against women and children in Sri Lanka. The […]

In a ‘letter to the editor’ of a Sri Lankan national newspaper recently, someone pointed to the need for a fearlessA story of fierce courage from Vishvamadhu to emerge from post-war Sri Lanka. ”In our legal history, extraordinary cases of this nature have had little impacton the general structure of law enforcement and the military. […]

(A file photo) Women’s Action Network (WAN) welcomes yesterday’s (6th October 2015) precedent setting verdict of the Vishwamadu military rape case (case no 1569/12 ) delivered by the Jaffna High Court. We salute the courage of both victims, especially one of them who pursued the case in-spite of physical harm, intimidation, insults and harassment since […]

Colombo Law Faculty Dean V.T Thamilmaran said, the Police are responsible to probe and place the truth before people; how one of the rape suspects Swiss Kumar, who was handed over and arrested by the police escaped from their custody and was then found in Colombo.  Unless and until that is cleared the mud slung […]

The mob violence that suddenly burst forth in Jaffna has given rise to multiple interpretations, both in Jaffna and elsewhere. Opposition politicians have claimed that the displaced Sinhalese who have been resettled in parts of Jaffna were being targeted. Others claimed that national security had been jeopardized by the demilitarization taking place in the North […]

(The Sri lanka National Women’s Cricket Team at the felicitation ceremony held at Taj Samudra Hotel on Wednesday 2013. Pictures by Sulochana Gamage) Reuters- Sri Lanka Cricket ordered an investigation in November after reports emerged alleging officials had asked female cricketers for sex. COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s sports ministry said on Friday that an investigation had […]

( Police officer tell Tamil mother ‘ it is up to you to discipline your men’ ) Demonstrations and protests should be peaceful and democratic. Chief Minister C.V. Wigneswaran said some mischief- makers are trying bring the people into conflict with the police and create opinion that it could only be controlled by the Army. […]

Former Supreme Court Judge and Northern province Chief minister C V Wigneswaran has requested Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to release three life convicts in the sensational Swamy Premananda case, according to online Times of India report posted yesterday.. The following is the Chennai datelined report: ” The three -Kamalananda, Balan alias Balendiran and Sathis […]