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• Digital Rights (India)

  Policing online abuse in India or policing women?

  7 November 2017, by CHANDRASEKHAR Ramya

  India has good laws to protect against internet stalking, revenge porn and other forms of sexist abuse online. But these laws are not well enforced. Social pressure continues to make women extremely vulnerable to online abuse.
  In 2013, the Internet Democracy Project conducted field research (…)

• Digital Rights (India)

  Behind the bans on girls’ mobile phone use in North India

  1 February 2017, by KOVACS Dr. Anja

  Since 2010, a number of village governments across north India have pronounced bans on mobile phone use for young women. What drives such orders? Are they really effective? And how do young women themselves respond to the bans and the underlying anxieties? We went to Haryana and western UP to find out.

  Setting the Scene

  The Pradhan and the Order

  In mid-November 2014, the Baliyan khap panchayat of Sisouli village and surroundings, near Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh, issued an order: (...)