New Year Eve Assaults On Women

As thousands celebrate New Year's Eve at Berlin's iconic Brandenburg Gate on Sunday night, a team of medical professionals in a white tent only yards away will be standing by, waiting for possible victims of sexual assault and harassment to seek their help.

In Bengaluru on Wednesday night, men and women gathered to say "I will go out". The movement, started by a group of students called Night in My Shining Armour, is a response to molestation and sexual assault on women on New Year's Eve in the city. "My body, my right" was one of the slogans shouted by those who had gathered and the message after the...

The multiple cases of molestation on New Year's Eve in Bengaluru have made women determined to fight the attitudes that lead to such incidents as an awareness campaign on self-defence and safety was organised at Cubbon Park.

The lack of women's safety in cities was shamefully on display not just in Bengaluru but also in Delhi on New Year's Eve, new footage has revealed. In north Delhi's Mukherjee Nagar area, policemen were attacked with stones moments after they tried to help a woman being manhandled and dragged by two men.

A woman being sexually assaulted, molested on the street, raped brutally is not a matter of shame alone. Shame doesn't even begin to describe what the assault is about. A woman being attacked is about a country of men that have, for far too long, lived entitled lives, where women are constantly accommodating them so that they don't have to bear the...

Three days after the New Year's Eve revelry turned into a nightmare for several women who were allegedly molested at a large gathering in city's downtown area, police on Tuesday claimed to have found "credible evidence" of molestation and have registered a First Information Report or FIR. As the incidents sparked widespread outrage with no action f...

For Karnataka Home Minister, G Parameshwara, "these things do happen" is an acceptable explanation of women being molested en masse at a public celebration of New Year's Eve in Bengaluru. Abu Azmi of the Samajwadi Party dispensed the argument that if women, unaccompanied by their fathers or husbands, mingle with other men, "it is wrong to expect th...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel faced growing pressure to harden her line on refugees on Monday as the first extensive police report on New Year's Eve violence in Cologne documented rampant sexual assaults on women by gangs of young migrant men.

With tensions running high over more than 500 reported assaults against women on New Year's Eve in the western city blamed on migrants, police said today that the mob attacked six Pakistanis, two of whom had to be hospitalised.

Two Pakistanis and a Syrian man were injured in attacks by gangs of people in Cologne, German police said late on Sunday, the city where the vast majority of dozens of New Year Eve assaults on women took place.

The German government today condemned dozens of apparently coordinated sexual assaults against women on New Year's Eve in the western city of Cologne blamed on Arab men but warned against anti-migrant scapegoating.

As thousands celebrate New Year's Eve at Berlin's iconic Brandenburg Gate on Sunday night, a team of medical professionals in a white tent only yards away will be standing by, waiting for possible victims of sexual assault and harassment to seek their help.

In Bengaluru on Wednesday night, men and women gathered to say "I will go out". The movement, started by a group of students called Night in My Shining Armour, is a response to molestation and sexual assault on women on New Year's Eve in the city. "My body, my right" was one of the slogans shouted by those who had gathered and the message after the...

The multiple cases of molestation on New Year's Eve in Bengaluru have made women determined to fight the attitudes that lead to such incidents as an awareness campaign on self-defence and safety was organised at Cubbon Park.

The lack of women's safety in cities was shamefully on display not just in Bengaluru but also in Delhi on New Year's Eve, new footage has revealed. In north Delhi's Mukherjee Nagar area, policemen were attacked with stones moments after they tried to help a woman being manhandled and dragged by two men.

A woman being sexually assaulted, molested on the street, raped brutally is not a matter of shame alone. Shame doesn't even begin to describe what the assault is about. A woman being attacked is about a country of men that have, for far too long, lived entitled lives, where women are constantly accommodating them so that they don't have to bear the...

Three days after the New Year's Eve revelry turned into a nightmare for several women who were allegedly molested at a large gathering in city's downtown area, police on Tuesday claimed to have found "credible evidence" of molestation and have registered a First Information Report or FIR. As the incidents sparked widespread outrage with no action f...

For Karnataka Home Minister, G Parameshwara, "these things do happen" is an acceptable explanation of women being molested en masse at a public celebration of New Year's Eve in Bengaluru. Abu Azmi of the Samajwadi Party dispensed the argument that if women, unaccompanied by their fathers or husbands, mingle with other men, "it is wrong to expect th...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel faced growing pressure to harden her line on refugees on Monday as the first extensive police report on New Year's Eve violence in Cologne documented rampant sexual assaults on women by gangs of young migrant men.

With tensions running high over more than 500 reported assaults against women on New Year's Eve in the western city blamed on migrants, police said today that the mob attacked six Pakistanis, two of whom had to be hospitalised.

Two Pakistanis and a Syrian man were injured in attacks by gangs of people in Cologne, German police said late on Sunday, the city where the vast majority of dozens of New Year Eve assaults on women took place.

The German government today condemned dozens of apparently coordinated sexual assaults against women on New Year's Eve in the western city of Cologne blamed on Arab men but warned against anti-migrant scapegoating.