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This week’s reader’s comments are mostly given to articles about sexual harassment and violence against women. Read the comments here, and don’t foget to comment articles we post in Facebook and Twitter. You might find your name in next week’s Comments of the Week.

Lisa Ulan So wrong on so many levels. (May 18, Facebook)

For: Aruna Shanbaug: Brain-damaged India nurse dies 42 years after rape

Yasemin Tanyel Oh my God, how can they do such a cruelty? (May 16, Facebook)

For: Attack on a girl by policemen for protesting against sexual harassment

Anastasia Sparkles  I pray he gets a normal life really soon. Ameen (May 13, Facebook)

For: Indian boy whose neck hangs at a 180-degree angle is set for surgery

Shahira Sadaat I went through similar experience, so I know how depressing it is. Happy that you manage to hold yourself back. (May 12, Facebook)

For: I Didn’t Know I Was in an Abusive Relationship, Because My Boyfriend Never Hit Me

Teguh Imansyah Its not muscle its heart (May 17, Facebook)

For: ‘Poverty Is Sexist’ Gets #Strengthie Support From Malala and Shonda Rhimes

Louise Orsetti Leck Not true of women’s education. (May 18, Facebook)

For: 19 Signs You Went To An All-Girls School

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WTO RECOMMENDS

Attack on a girl by policemen for protesting against sexual harassment

Policemen in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, have been in the news this week after officers brutally beat and kicked a girl taking part in a protest against sexual harassment. The incident has been condemned in social media. (From May 15, 2015)

Hong Kong’s domestic workers ‘treated worse than the dogs’

Many of the hundreds of thousands of migrant domestic workers looking for a better life in Hong Kong end up exposed to abuse at the hands of their employers. Zigor Aldama reports with three women’s stories. (From März 19, 2015)

Allegations of Sorcery in the 21st Century: Violence against Women

News about atrocities against women in Papua New Guinea (PNG) was commonplace in the last few weeks. Women who have been accused of sorcery were either killed or forced to flee their homes. But this brutal violence against women is not new in PNG. In June 2014 UN rights adviser Signe Poulsen told DW in an interview that the PNG government had failed to protect the victims and bring the attackers to justice. In fact, over the past view years, women accused of being witches have been tortured or burnt in PNG. (From Januar 1, 2015)

Freedom from violence and fear

After the brutal gang rape of a young woman in December 2012 in the national capital, following which she succumbed to her injuries, there was a great upsurge of people protesting on the streets. It was the graphic, vicious nature of the crime, as opposed to the ‘normalcy’ of everyday violence, which brought everyone out in large numbers. (From August 27, 2014)