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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | 79% of women in India faced public harassment

79% of women in India faced public harassment

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published Published on May 21, 2016   modified Modified on May 21, 2016
-The Times of India

NEW DELHI: Nearly four of five women (79%) in India have experienced some form of harassment or violence in public and a third groped or touched in public (39%), according to a ActionAid UK report released on Friday on occasion of the International Safe Cities for Women Day.

India is third among four countries surveyed which includes UK, Thailand and Brazil. The YouGov poll, which surveyed 2,500 women aged 16 and over in major cities across India, Brazil, Thailand and the UK, found that in India 84% of the women who experienced harassment were in the age group of 25-35 years, 82% of them were full time workers and 68% students.

"Shockingly, 89% of women in Brazil, 86% in Thailand and 75% in the UK have faced harassment or violence on the streets. The research highlighted that across the four countries, women in the lowest social economic groups most likely to experience violence or harassment in cities," the report said.

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The Times of India, 21 May, 2016, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/79-of-women-in-India-faced-public-harassment/articleshow/52369555.cms


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