Top Law News Sex crimes: Sexual assault instead of Rape July 20, 2012 / July 20, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The government’s move to make rape a gender-neutral crime is a welcome step towards harmonising current anomalies in laws relating to sexual offence. The proposed changes are aimed at broadening the definition of rape, so far restricted to penile and vaginal penetration. The replacement of the word ‘rape’ with ‘sexual assault’, a gender-neutral distinction, will […] Read more » Delhi High Court Delhi High Court in 2009 decriminalised homosexuality Law Commission penile and vaginal penetration rape sex Sex crimes sexual sexual acts of adults Sexual assault sexual experience sexual experience of the victim sexual offence. sexual offenders
Top Law News Conference on freedom of sex workers July 20, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment On Saturday Kolkata will host a conference on freedom of sex workers. 550 sex workers representatives from about 44 countries will participate in the event. The two-day event, to be held on July 21 and 22, will run parallel to the XIX International AIDS Conference being organized in Washington DC from Sunday. The sex workers […] Read more » AIDS Conference on freedom of sex workers conference on sex workers freedom of sex workers HIV Kolkata sex sex workers US government Washington DC
Top Law News ‘Punish clients, not sex trafficking victims’ April 5, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Fatima Nat Dhuniya was all of 9 years when she was “married off” and then landed in the world of sex trade. More than a decade later, she stands confident as a community mobiliser and said that the laws in the country should change so that the client is punished and not the victim. “As […] Read more » 'Punish Aurora J. De Dios clients sex trafficking victims