-The Hindu A statistically faulty focus on Rape has led to a misdiagnosis and a worsening of India's real problem: women's autonomy The recently reported Rape of a young woman in a taxi in Delhi has brought back attention to India's sexual violence problem. The spotlight has been on the country since the horrific Rape of a young woman aboard a bus in December 2012, an attack that killed her. The beginning...
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-The Indian Express Although the prevalence of sexual violence in India is the lowest in the world (8.5 per cent in 2013), it affects 27.5 million women in the country. Rapes reported to the police as sexual violence surged from 39 per day to 93 per day in 2013. In Uttar Pradesh alone, five Rapes occurred in 36 hours. Even these are underestimations, for two reasons. One is the exclusion of...
More »Key Maneka plans run into Modi hurdle
-The Telegraph Differences with the Prime Minister's Office appear to have held up key schemes of the women and child development (WCD) ministry announced in the budget five months ago. Among the measures stalled is the "one-stop Rape crisis centres", christened Nirbhaya centres after the 2012 Delhi bus Rape victim and seen as a pet project of Maneka Gandhi. The finance ministry had approved Rs 500 crore for the plan but, with the...
More »Crimes against women, children on the rise in Delhi, says report -Bindu Shajan Perappadan
-The Hindu A recent report released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) indicate that there has been a significant rise in the number of registered cases of crimes against women and children in Delhi/NCR. Sample this: the number of Rape cases has seen a spurt from 706 in 2012 to more than double at 1,636 last year, while cases of assault on women with intent to outrage her modesty have spiked...
More »Crimes against women in Mumbai up 59% in a year -Nitasha Natu
-The Times of India Mumbai: Crimes against women in Mumbai soared 59% during April 2013 to March 2014 compared with the previous financial year while convictions in serious offences stood at an abysmal 8%. Data compiled by the NGO Praja concludes that understaffing and multiplicity of tasks in the police force are compromising investigation and, in turn, affecting conviction. A third of Mumbai's population feels unsafe living in the city, according to...
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