Kalakshetra college: Professor booked for sexual abuse after students protest

On Friday, Chief Minister MK Stalin had assured investigation into the allegations against four faculty members of the Chennai-based institute.

Scroll Staff

· Apr 01, 2023 · 11:14 am

A #MeToo reckoning in India’s wildlife conservation community

Women who work in ecological conservation say the profession is dominated by men and several organisations have a culture of casual sexism.

Vaishnavi Rathore

· Apr 01, 2023 · 06:30 am

Kalakshetra abuse controversy should force a rethink of power hierarchies in ‘classical’ dance world

The story of modern bharatanatyam is not just about discourse or ideology. It is a battleground over the real control of bodies, representation and power.

Nrithya Pillai

· Mar 29, 2023 · 06:30 am

10 years since the Pocso Act, cases continue to be delayed, but courts are not solely to blame

Pinning the blame on courts alone would be missing the forest for the trees. The criminal justice system requires systemic reform.

Jyotika Randhawa

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Apoorva

· Dec 28, 2022 · 09:00 am

Make programmes on sexual abuse mandatory in schools, Kerala HC tells CBSE and state

The court passed the directions while hearing the bail petition of a 23-year-old man accused of having raped a 15-year-old girl.

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· Aug 27, 2022 · 01:10 pm

What Ghislaine Maxwell’s conviction reveals about female sex offenders

The British socialite is found guilty for her role in luring and grooming girls to be sexually abused by the American financier.

Poco Kernsmith, The Conversation

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Erin B Comartin, The Conversation

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Sheryl Kubiak, The Conversation

· Dec 30, 2021 · 07:30 pm

Nassar abuse victims to receive $380 mln settlement: report

The settlement ends a five-year legal battle that erupted following the abuse scandal that rocked the US Olympic movement.

AFP

· Dec 14, 2021 · 09:19 am

Reporting of child sexual abuse spiked in Kashmir after it enacted a law following the Kathua case

There was a more than five-fold rise in the reporting of cases in 2019.

Safina Nabi, IndiaSpend.com

· Feb 09, 2021 · 09:30 pm

French skating coach being probed over sexual abuse claims by former world c’ships bronze medallist

Sarah Abitbol accused coach Beyer of raping her several times from 1990-92.

AFP

· Feb 05, 2020 · 09:25 am

Former Olympic judo champion Peter Seisenbacher handed five-year jail sentence for sexual abuse

An Austrian court said he was found guilty of sexually abusing two girls he coached from the late 1990s to the early 2000s.

AFP

· Dec 02, 2019 · 10:09 pm

Former Southampton youth football coach jailed for 24 years for sex abuse

Handing down the lengthy sentence at Winchester Crown Court in southern England, judge Peter Crabtree said he was “predatory, cunning and manipulative”.

AFP

· Jun 12, 2019 · 09:28 pm

Vatican summit on sexual abuse: Clergy call for ‘new culture of accountability’ in the church

Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich told 190 bishops and religious superiors gathered at the event that new legal procedures are necessary.

Scroll Staff

· Feb 22, 2019 · 07:31 pm