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Police in rural India are investigating the murder of five members of the same family who were accused by a mob of witchcraft ...
Witch branding carries a legacy of violence, including flogging, rape, burning, and even murder. The targets are mostly old, single, or unmarried women living in the margins of the community.
Most witch-hunting victims have been noticed as either, old, widows, or single, women. This paper analyses violence against Dalit women with specific reference to witch-hunting. It explores the caste ...
Experts estimate that roughly 2,500 people have been killed in witch hunts in rural India since 2000. Here is what activists are doing to fight the practice.
Indian police talk to villagers after five women accused of practicing witchcraft were killed in Kanjia village in India's eastern Jharkhand state on Aug. 8, 2015 STR—AFP/Getty Images ...
From 2010 to 2021, more than 1,500 people were killed in India after accusations of witchcraft, ... Village-level protection committees aid survivors of violence.
Mob in India drags ‘witch’ from home, ... The Adivasi people, who tend to be poor and uneducated, have been the targets of mob violence for years from various tribal groups in the country.
A tribal woman in central India has been brutally gang-raped allegedly by six men who suspected her of practising witchcraft, police say. The 35-year-old woman has been admitted to hospital and is ...
Somebody mentions witch trials in Salem, Mass., in the late 1600s as well as continuing domestic violence in the West. “Yes, it does,” an ANANDI staffer responds. “One way or another, women ...