The Supreme Court has ruled that a dowry demand is not required to establish the crime of cruelty under Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code. The court emphasized that cruelty, whether physical or ...

The court said it needs to be assessed whether the allegations are genuine with specific criminal role or a side effect of ...

The purpose of the Child Abuse Registry is to help child and family services agencies protect children. Under certain circumstances, an employer or organization can access the Registry to determine ...

The purpose of the Adult Abuse Registry is to help protect specified adults by allowing employers to screen potential employees and volunteers who want to work with specified adults. The Registry ...

The best photo printers create great colour and mono photo prints at home, but which one should you go for? I’ve been testing and reviewing desktop printers for decades and have come to the conclusion ...

The campaign features If I could tell myself, a poem written by Nikki, a resident of York who has survived domestic abuse. Drawing on Nikki’s own experiences, the poem reveals some of the common ...

The study is gathering the stories of survivors of abuse in "faith settings", who hope it could lead to a public inquiry. The Islands Safeguarding Children Partnership works with agencies to ...

Former LA Times reporter Alan Abrahamson, who covered the Menendez brothers' trials, calls them "stone cold killers," urging focus on facts. Susan Smith, convicted nearly 30 years ago for drowning ...

An appeal contesting specific elements of the Dowry Prohibition Act and claiming abuse of laws pertaining to women was denied by the Supreme Court on Monday.(Hindustan Times) "You can go and raise ...

A Chattogram court on Monday (3 February) sentenced a man to death for killing his wife, who was pregnant at the time, over conflict centring dowry. Judge Ferdous Ara of Chattogram Women and Children ...