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India Imposing Stronger Penalties For Violence Against Women

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In this week's news: India’s Parliament passes bill creating harsher penalties for crimes against women. Other news items include: Swiss tourist gang raped in India; Girl shot by Taliban returns to school; Senate committee hears testimony about military sexual assault; BBC creates expert database of women; Philippines halts law on free birth control; Singapore uses fairytales to warn women of declining fertility; Twitter lights up after convictions in Steubenville rape case; Readers shocked to learn science blog author is female; New pink tablet marketed to women; Lawsuit seeks to make same-sex marriage legal in New Mexico.

Megan has been a journalist for 25 years and worked at business weeklies in San Antonio, New Orleans and Albuquerque. She first came to KUNM as a phone volunteer on the pledge drive in 2005. That led to volunteering on Women’s Focus, Weekend Edition and the Global Music Show. She was then hired as Morning Edition host in 2015, then the All Things Considered host in 2018. Megan was hired as News Director in 2021.
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