Dépêche AFP:
"India, a rapidly modernizing country, has a high incidence of rapes and sexual attacks on women. A government-backed United Nations survey found that about 85 percent of women in New Delhi are afraid of being sexually harassed while outside their homes for work or study."
Article de Tribune India:
Safety and dignity
These are every woman’s right
Tomes have been written on women’s empowerment in India and a host of laws have been passed to enable women to fight oppression. Yet the ground reality remains as dismal as ever. Safety of women in India has always been a cause for consternation throwing to winds all talk of women’s emancipation. Now a new study that puts India as the fourth most dangerous place for women gives enough reason for us to hang our heads in shame. India cannot take comfort in the fact that it’s for high incidence of female foeticide and infanticide that it finds itself in the unenviable company of nations like Afghanistan that tops the list.
Denying female the right to be born is no less a heinous crime. If women are not safe in the wombs of their mothers, expecting their well-being in society at large and particularly in marital homes is like asking for the impossible. Violence at homes despite the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act is yet another shocking reminder of gnawing gender gaps. While female foeticide is believed to have led to disappearance of 50 million unborn daughters, violence at home is linked to the death of girls as well. Human trafficking is another grave area. What is even more shocking is that out of three million prostitutes in the country 40 per cent are children. Incidents of rape show little sign of abating and recently the National Commission for Women has expressed concern over fast growing cases of rape.
However, merely making the right kind of noises is not enough. While providing more teeth to existing laws meant to protect women should be welcomed the key lies in its proper implementation. Be it the PNDT Act or PWDVA, the law enforcing agencies must ensure that the guilty do not go scot-free. Women too must be encouraged to seek legal intervention for redressal of their grievances. In the 21st century the least that India owes to its women is the right to be safe both within and outside their homes.
The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth. — Chinese proverb
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