Students took to the streets in the southern state of Tamil Nadu in India after several videos that showed sexual assaults on college girls were posted online.

A throng of women's rights campaigners demanded the authorities on March 14 to quickly investigate the assaults and also provide protection to the victims. Many of the victims in the videos have since been identified based on the footage.

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The number of crimes against women reported to police in India rose by 83 percent from 2007 to 2016

By Anuradha Nagaraj

CHENNAI, India, March 14 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A wave of student protests rocked India's southern state of Tamil Nadu on Thursday after a number of videos showing sexual assaults on college girls were posted online.

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Protests erupt in India after series of videos showing college girls being gang-raped and begging to be freed are posted online by blackmailers

NGO forms all-women panel to inquire case

Madurai: An all-women independent high-level committee comprising retired bureaucrats, police officers, lawyers and members of the civil society has been constituted by the human rights NGO, People’s Watch to inquire into the Pollachi sexual abuse case. 

Demands High Court-monitored investigation

Madurai-based human rights organisation People’s Watch has decided to form a high-level committee comprising eminent women from civil society to conduct an enquiry into the Pollachi sexual abuse case.

Rights outfits hold protest to trace Mugilan 

A large number of people from human rights organizations and various political parties took part in a protest in Madurai on Thursday organized to urge the state government and the police department to find the whereabouts of social activist Mugilan.

Man goes missing on train, kin accuses Railway Police of inaction

When the family requested the officials to scan through CCTV footage to trace the man, they claimed the technical person was not available and the family was asked to wait.

‘Why are the police asking irrelevant questions?’: Disquiet grows over missing Sterlite activist

RS Mugilan disappeared last month after publicly accusing top police officials of colluding with Sterlite to ‘orchestrate violence’ during the Thoothukudi stir.

Award for Henri Tiphagne

Henri Tiphagne, founder and executive director of Madurai-based human rights organisation People’s Watch, has been selected for the Nani A. Palkhiwala Award for Civil Liberties this year under the individuals category.