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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Stalked, Molested and Groped, Daily Travel is No Less Than Torture for Delhi Women -Zoya Mateen

Stalked, Molested and Groped, Daily Travel is No Less Than Torture for Delhi Women -Zoya Mateen

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published Published on Jul 2, 2018   modified Modified on Jul 2, 2018
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Thomson Reuters Foundation survey ranked India as the world’s most dangerous country for women, followed by Afghanistan and Syria, due to the high risk of sexual violence. The rankings were given on the basis of six key areas – healthcare, discrimination, cultural traditions, sexual violence, non-sexual violence and human trafficking.

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Akshita, a student of Delhi University, lives in the western fringes of Uttam Nagar in New Delhi. Long hours of travel to get to school and now college is a tedious recital of her life for many years now. “It never really gets better,” she said.

Despite metro connectivity now, she has to haul a bus or an auto twice every day to get back home, which with it brings an endless cycle of dealing with casual eve-teasing and name-calling by men in public spaces. “Most of the times, I am so afraid. I got stalked by a man outside the metro station once who tried following me all the way to my college,” she said.

Akshita’s is a very common story of any women in India which was also reflected in the Thomson Reuters Foundation survey of 548 experts on women’s issues, which ranked India as the world’s most dangerous country for women, followed by Afghanistan and Syria, due to the high risk of sexual violence. The rankings were given on the basis of six key areas – healthcare, discrimination, cultural traditions, sexual violence, non-sexual violence and human trafficking.

Union Minister for Women and Child Development, Maneka Gandhi, however, rejected this poll and wrote to the Thomson Reuters Foundation demanding for details of the methodology used to get the official numbers, the sample size used and information as to who were the stakeholders.

While the minister awaits the answers to her questions, the capital city of Delhi continues to be unkind to women who hang by the thread of fear while travelling in buses, autos and metro compartments daily.

“Travelling is always an unforgiving experience. It doesn’t matter what time of the day or which mode it is,” a 24-year-old woman working in Noida said.

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News18.com, 30 June, 2018, https://www.news18.com/news/buzz/stalked-molested-and-groped-daily-travel-is-no-less-than-torture-for-delhi-women-1796071.html


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