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• Indian village proud after double "honour killing". Reuters, 16 May 2008. Five armed men burst into the small room and courtyard at dawn, just as 21-year-old, 22-week pregnant, Sunita was drying her face on a towel.
• 'Minor' bride moves court against her marriage. Times of India, 14 May 2008. A Jaipur woman on Monday petitioned a local court seeking annulment of her illegal marriage solemnised in 2006 when she was a minor.
• Alarming rise in rape of minors: Police data. Times of India, 8 May 2008. In a shocking trend, the number of minors becoming victims of rape this year has shown a sharp increase vis-a-vis those above 18 years, according to statistics with the Mumbai police.
• Soon, rape victim will be spared courtroom trauma. The Economic Times, 3 May 2008. With 22% annual increase in the number of rape cases, the government’s nod to amendments to the Criminal Procedure Code that would protect rape victims from suffering further trauma during the process of investigation is being seen as a landmark step for ensuring gender justice.
• Honour killing in Bulandshahr village. Expressindia.com, 21 April 2008. A Deadly calm prevails in the tiny village of Garhia, 15 kilometres off Bulandshahr in the rural belt of western Uttar Pradesh. Through the quiet of the village, dominated by the Lodha Rajputa community, a backward caste, one can only hear whispers — that of how a father beat his 12-year-old daughter to death to “save his honour”.
  

• Communal violence in Gujarat, India: impact of sexual violence and responsibilities of the health care system. Khanna R. Reprod Health Matters; 16(31): 142-52. 2008
• Sexual violence among pregnant women in India. Chhabra S. J Obstet Gynaecol Res; 34(2): 238-41. 2008
  
• Spousal sexual violence and poverty are risk factors for sexually transmitted infections in women: a longitudinal study of women in Goa, India. H A Weiss, V Patel, B West, R W Peeling, B R Kirkwood, and D Mabey. Sexually Transmitted Infections;84:133-139. 2008
• Effects of Individual and Proximate Educational Context on Intimate Partner Violence: A Population-Based Study of Women in India. Ackerson LK, Kawachi I, Barbeau EM, Subramanian SV. Am J Public Health. 2008: Abstract.
  
• Intimate partner violence is as important as client violence in increasing street-based female sex workers' vulnerability to HIV in India. Panchanadeswaran S, Johnson SC, Sivaram S, et al Int J Drug Policy. 2008
  
• Consent and Coercion: Examining Unwanted Sex Among Married Young Women in India, .G. Santhya, Nicole Haberland, F. Ram, R.K. Sinha and S.K. Mohanty, International Family Planning Perspectives, Volume 33, Number 3, September 2007

• Gender, Sexuality and Violence in the Context of HIV/AIDS - A Call to Action. ICRW, Oxfam GB (India) and EC, 2008
• India - Staying Alive: First Monitoring & Evaluation Report 2007 on the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act 2005. Lawyers Collective Women's Rights Initiative, UNIFEM South Asia Office, 2007
• “Staying Alive” 1st Monitoring and Evaluation Report on the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, Lawyers Collective, India, 2007
  
• Compendium on Best Practices On Anti Human Trafficking By Law Enforcement Agencies, Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Regional Office for South Asia, Government of India and the 2007
• Body as Site, Body as Space - Bodily Integrity and Women's Empowerment in India, Mathur, Kanchan, Institute for Development Studies, 2007
• Characteristics of Sex-Ratio Imbalances in India and Future Scenarios, Christophe Z. Guilmoto, LPED/IRD, Paris, UNFPA, 2007
  
• Regional Study for the Harmonization of Anti-Trafficking Legal Framework in India, Bangladesh and Nepal with International Standards: Developing rights based approach for anti-trafficking actions in South Asia, Kathmandu School of Law, 2007
• Action India, Women, Law, and Social Change
• Domestic Violence And Dowry: Evidence From A South Indian Village, Working Paper Series, 429, Srinivasan, S.; Bedi, A.S. / Institute of Social Studies, Netherlands , 2006
• Abuse Among Child Domestic Workers: A research study in West Bengal, Save the Children, 2006
• Gender Gap:  When sons are prized over daughters, International Centre for Research on Women, 2006
• From the front line: the impact of social, legal and judicial impediments to sexual health promotion, and HIV and AIDS related care and support for males who have sex with males in Bangladesh and India, S. Khan, A. Bondyopadhyay, K. Mulji, Naz Foundation International 2005
• Women of the World: Laws and Policies Affecting their Reproductive Lives: South Asia, Center for Reproductive Rights, 2004
• Compounding Injustice: The Government's Failure to Redress Massacres in Gujarat, Human Rights Watch, 15 (3), 2003
• A Report on Trafficking in Women and Children in India 2002-2003, India National Human Rights Commission, 2003
  
• 'We Have No Orders To Save You' State Participation and Complicity in Communal Violence in Gujarat, Human Rights Watch, 2002
• Caste Discrimination: A Global Concern, Human Rights Watch, 2001
• Broken People: Caste Violence Against India’s “Untouchables”, Human Rights Watch 1999

• International Center for Research on Women (ICRW)
• Lawyers Collective
• Jagori
• Men’s Action for stopping Violence against Women (MASVAW) or www.sahayogindia.org/masvaw.htm
• Lawyers Collective Women's Rights Initiative (LCWRI)
• Phoenix Organisation for Woman and Child, Andhra Pradesh, India: Email: phoenixwomen_india@yahoo.com