This week, a 16-year-old girl in India committed suicide. Reports suggest that she hung herself.
That same teenager was allegedly gang- raped last month in India’s Haryana state, which surrounds the capital New Delhi.
Relatives say that she was deeply disturbed after only one of her attackers was arrested. The rest were allowed to roam free.
It makes for tough reading. Because, as India finds itself engulfed in an international rape row, real women are still suffering in hidden pockets of this vast and deeply misogynistic country.
One woman is raped in India every 20 minutes.
That much was made clear in India’s Daughter, a new BBC documentary broadcast last night (and again this coming Sunday for International Women’s Day), which has been banned by the Indian Government after police brought and injunction against it. Full story...
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That same teenager was allegedly gang- raped last month in India’s Haryana state, which surrounds the capital New Delhi.
Relatives say that she was deeply disturbed after only one of her attackers was arrested. The rest were allowed to roam free.
It makes for tough reading. Because, as India finds itself engulfed in an international rape row, real women are still suffering in hidden pockets of this vast and deeply misogynistic country.
One woman is raped in India every 20 minutes.
That much was made clear in India’s Daughter, a new BBC documentary broadcast last night (and again this coming Sunday for International Women’s Day), which has been banned by the Indian Government after police brought and injunction against it. Full story...
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- India's Daughter...
- Some rapes are more newsworthy than others in India...
- India rape: screaming woman ignored by passers-by in social experiment...
- 7 ways Bollywood is contributing to rape culture in India...
- Spate of gang-rapes over weekend shames India...
- 7 rapes in 48 hours in India's Uttar Pradesh state...
- Two Dalit girls in India gang-raped and hanged from a tree...
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