AN Sinha Institute of Social Studies, Gandhi Maidan, Patna, Bihar, India, 12th March 2014. Participants during discussion on ‘Effective implementation of Prevention of Witchcraft Act, 1999 and violence against women’ organized by Bihar Women’s Network, Mahila Jagaran Kendra and Centre for World Solidarity. Witchcraft in Bihar is always an acute social problem and in that many women termed as witch subjected to severe physical, mental and economical hardship. In 2011-12, 189 cases of ‘Witchcraft harassment’ lodged in Bihar Police Stations. Credit: Rupa Ghosh/Alamy Live News.

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Participants during discussion on ‘Effective implementation of Prevention of Witchcraft Act, 1999 and violence against women’

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