Here’s your wrap of news for the week gone by! The Gujarat High Court has proposed to introduce a set of guidelines that prohibit the social exclusion of menstruating women from private, public, religious and educational places, Live Law reported on Tuesday. It sought a response from the state government and the Centre over the matter by the end of March. The court was hearing a plea filed in connection with an incident reported in Bhuj town in February last year, where 68 girls were forced to remove their undergarments to prove they were not menstruating. The reported harassment took place after the hostel warden complained to the principal that some of the students were “violating religious norms”. The Covid-19 pandemic has caused mass trauma on a larger scale than World War II, and the impact will last “for many years to come,” the WHO’s top official said Friday. “After the Second World War, the world has experienced mass trauma, because the Second World War affected many, many lives. And now, even with this Covid pandemic, with bigger magnitude, more lives have been affected,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a news conference Friday. Tedros’ deputies emphasized that mental health ought to be prioritized by nations. Two sub-inspectors and a constable were placed under suspension for laxity in dealing with the gang rape case of a 13-year-old girl and the death of her father in a road accident. The action was taken against the three cops after they were found guilty in a preliminary inquiry by the Ghatampur circle officer. The family members of the man have alleged that Devendra Yadav, the father of the prime accused in the gang rape case, hatched a conspiracy to kill him and make it look like a road accident. Girls wearing pants or skirts and boys in short pants will be ostracized, a village panchayat in UP’s Muzaffarnagar has ruled. The panchayat called in Muzaffarnagar’s Pipalshah village on Tuesday discussed issues “affecting the society” among other things. “It is not our culture. Girls should not wear jeans or skirts and men should also wear proper clothes. If they will not dress up properly, they will be socially boycotted,” Thakur Puran Singh, president of Bhartiya Kisan Sangathan (BKS) said. Ten million additional child marriages may occur before the end of the decade, threatening years of progress in reducing the practice, according to a new analysis released by UNICEF today. COVID-19: A threat to progress against child marriage warns that school closures, economic stress, service disruptions, pregnancy, and parental deaths due to the pandemic are putting the most vulnerable girls at increased risk of child marriage. Even before the COVID-19 outbreak, 100 million girls were at risk of child marriage in the next decade, despite significant reductions in several countries in recent years. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Follow Feminism In India: Website: https://www.feminisminindia.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/feminisminindia Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/feminisminindia Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/feminismini... Telegram: https://t.me/feminisminindia Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/cjuLbv
