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This #InternationalWomensDay2022 let’s revisit the progressive judgments of the Indian Courts reaffirming the rights of the women and providing them better protection of the law.
#ICLU celebrates 21 judgments of the #SupremeCourt on this #WomensDay
#ICLU celebrates 21 judgments of the #SupremeCourt on this #WomensDay
1. The Apex Court providing for detailed guidelines for safety of women at workplace in Vishakha & Ors. v. State of Rajasthan & Ors. (1997) directed employers to provide a mechanism for redressal of grievances of employees. (1/2)
These guidelines were eventually formalised as legislation with the passing of the Sexual Harrasment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013. (2/2)
#GuidelinesAgainstHarrassment
#ICLU
#GuidelinesAgainstHarrassment
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Question to people who understand criminal justice. Why was there no psych evaluation done on McKnight? Why was it not proposed that he scarily mirrors the behaviours of a power-assertive rapist? Would this not have been helpful in understanding rehabilitation potential?
beyond the fact that he was smart and his dad will give him a job.
Also, in Sulyma’s sentencing decision she mentioned how one of the victims went to a Mud Derby the day after the rape. I’m struggling to see the relevance. Was she supposed to immediately tell all her friends she was raped and sit at home crying? #rapemyths @QB_Alberta
THREAD on #SexualViolence:
A woman does not need to fight back or resist in order to prove that she did not consent to unwanted sex. (Canadian sexual assault law does not require proof of resistance to demonstrate a lack of consent.) Nevertheless, in popular imagination
A woman does not need to fight back or resist in order to prove that she did not consent to unwanted sex. (Canadian sexual assault law does not require proof of resistance to demonstrate a lack of consent.) Nevertheless, in popular imagination
women are often expected to resist in order to prove that they really were “real” victims of sexual assault. This is one of the enduring #RapeMyths, that a “true” victim of sexual assault will fight back or scream and yell, and if she didn’t she must have consented to sex.
This mistaken idea simply fails to understand typical responses to sexual threat, coercion, intrusion and/or fear. Too often, sexual assault victims are asked, “Why didn’t you just fight back, or scream, or struggle, or run away?”
