India worst place to be woman among G-20 countries, Canada best place

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G20 Women - TrustLaw


Methodology:

In late spring 2012, Thomson Reuters Foundation conducted a global perception poll of gender experts to rank the countries of the Group of 20 nations on how well women in these countries fared.
The poll by TrustLaw Women, the Foundation‟s women‟s rights news and information service, asked 370 gender experts from five continents a number of key questions to establish a ranking of the G20 countries. The experts surveyed included aid professionals, academics, health workers, policymakers, journalists and development specialists. All were chosen for their expertise in gender issues.

http://www.trust.org/documents/womens-rights/resources/G20Poll2012-methodologyandresults.pdf

 

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India is not the worst

re-read the pdf. You will see random countries pop up in the research listings that are broken down.

Indias 20th on the list.


If that's out of 190+ countries, that's not bad

 

[ekrem]

India is not the worst

re-read the pdf. You will see random countries pop up in the research listings that are broken down.

Indias 20th on the list.


If that's out of 190+ countries, that's not bad

It's among G-20 countries, not 190+ countries.
G-20 major economies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In the final ranking India is at last place, even behind Saudi-Arabia.

 

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India is not the worst

re-read the pdf. You will see random countries pop up in the research listings that are broken down.

Indias 20th on the list.


If that's out of 190+ countries, that's not bad

It's among G-20 countries, not 190+ countries.
G-20 major economies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In the final ranking India is at last place, even behind Saudi-Arabia.

oops, getting sleepy

Still though, you have to be up there to even get in g 20

 

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The Indian male point of view towards rape...

Why young Indian men rationalize rape as something expected
Tue, Mar 26, 2013 - “Rape is a big problem. It starts with the woman. They drive the man fucking crazy,” Papi Gonzales said.

He leans back in his chair and surveys the other young Indian men around the table in his beach bar, seeking approval. They nod in agreement, eager to make their own points. “When the girls look sexy and the boys can’t control themselves, they are going to rape. It happens,” said Robin Shretha, one of the waiters. Since 23-year-old Jyoti Singh, a medical student, was gang-raped on a bus in Delhi in December last year and later died in hospital from her injuries, the issue of rape has been prominent in India.

New cases are reported every day. Last week, headlines were dominated by the gang rape of a Swiss woman on a cycling holiday in Madhya Pradesh. In the same week, a British woman leapt from her hotel window in the northern city of Agra at 4am to escape the unwanted attention of the hotel manager, who was trying to get into her room. According to government figures, a rape takes place in India every 21 minutes. The number of reported rapes rose by 9 percent in 2011 to 24,000. Yet conviction rates are falling, down to 26 percent in 2011. The recent cases have aroused worldwide outrage, and demonstrations led by women have filled the streets of major cities. However, what do India’s young men think?

The Observer gathered a group in the western region of Goa, to hear their views. They were: Abhijit Harmalkar, 28, a driver; his brother, Avinash Harmalkar, 24, a factory worker; Bhivresh Banaulikar, 26, an auditor; Brindhavan Salgaonkar, 20, a factory worker; Robin Shretha, 21, a waiter; and Papi Gonzales, 32, the owner of the bar. One word to describe their views would be “unreconstructed.” The discussion illustrated a deep moral conservatism among Indian men, coupled with confusion about gender roles in a society where economic modernization is outstripping social attitudes.

We are getting the blame, they said, while no one is paying attention to the actions of young women who need to understand that they should not be out on their own at night. “Our culture is different,” Abijit Harmalkar said. “Girls are not allowed outside after 6[pm] because anything can happen — rape, robbery, kidnaps. It is the mentality of some people. They are putting on short and sexy dresses, that’s why. Then men cannot control themselves.” Banaulikar nodded. “I have a sister. If she was out late at night then I would be worried. After 7pm I would be worried. Men can’t control themselves,” he said.

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India losin' tourism business over gang-rapes...

Sexual Violence Scares Off India’s Tourists
1 Apr.`13 - The number of foreign tourists in India has dropped dramatically following the gang rape of a young woman in Delhi in December, according to a survey.

The horrific gang rape and death of a young woman in Delhi in December has changed the perception many foreigners have of India. Questions like: “Is India safe?” and “Is it OK for women to travel by themselves?” have become a lot more common among foreigners thinking of traveling in India. Women’s safety has become a major worry, so much so that tourist numbers have taken a hit. In the roughly three months since the Delhi rape case made headlines around the world, the number of foreign tourists in the country dropped 25% from the same period a year earlier, according to a new survey released by the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India, a trade body. The number of foreign women travelers has dropped even more: down 35% year-on-year.

The study, which is based on a survey of 1,200 tour operators, cites the growing perception that India is not safe for women as a key reason for the drop. Around 72% of the tour operators surveyed said that some women travelers – most of them from Western countries including the U.S., U.K. and Canada – have canceled their bookings over the past three months. The study found that New Delhi suffered more than any other tourist destination in India. A recent poll by The Wall Street Journal found that over 76% of respondents believe India is not safe for women travelers. The brutal Delhi gang rape in December triggered protests calling for improved women’s safety in India, and made the issue a public policy priority. Last month, the Indian Parliament passed a bill aimed at strengthening sexual assault legislation, with tougher penalties for offences including rape and stalking.

A tourist in a marketan New Delhi, March 20.

Foreign women have also been victims of sexual harassment and assault in recent months. In mid-March, a Swiss woman said she was gang-raped while camping with her husband near Orchha, an emerging tourist destination in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. More recently, a British woman said she jumped from the balcony of her room to escape sexual harassment from the hotel manager standing outside her door. She was staying in Agra, a city that is home of India’s most famous tourist destination: the Taj Mahal. The ASSOCHAM study found that, combined, these three incidents had a significant impact in dissuading foreigners, especially women, from traveling to India.

Recent episodes of sexual harassment have prompted the U.K. to update its travel advice for British citizens in India, prioritizing warnings on women’s safety. Other governments, including the U.S., have similar travel advisories for India. Tourism is a growing industry in India. In 2012, 6.6 million foreign tourists traveled to India, up 5.4% from a year earlier, with foreign exchange earnings totaling $17.74 billion, according to government data. The busiest months for tourism are November through March.

Sexual Violence Scares Off India?s Tourists - Wall Street Journal - WSJ.com

 

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Another rape in Delhi - this time a 5-year-old girl...

'Raped' Delhi five-year-old in a critical condition
19 April 2013 : A five-year-old girl is battling for her life after being allegedly kidnapped and repeatedly raped by a neighbour in the Indian capital, Delhi.

The girl was taken hostage on Monday and attacked in a locked room for over 48 hours, police said. Reports say she was rescued by a passer-by who heard her cries on Wednesday. No arrests have been made. The gang rape and murder of a student on a Delhi bus in December sparked protests across India. In a separate development, police in Delhi say they are also looking for a group of men who allegedly gang-raped a 19-year-old woman on Wednesday night. Reports say the woman, who works as a domestic helper, was offered a lift in a vehicle by the men and then allegedly sedated and raped.

'Traumatised'

The five-year-old girl has been admitted to a city hospital in a critical condition. "The girl was traumatised when she was brought to us. There were injuries to her lips, cheeks and chest wall. There were bruises on her neck," RN Bansal, chief of Swami Dayanand hospital, told the NDTV news channel. Delhi police spokesman Rajan Bhagat told the AFP news agency that police had launched a probe into the rape and "attempted murder" of the girl. There have been protests outside the hospital where the girl is being treated.

The issue of sexual violence against women and girls has been under intense scrutiny in India

Mr Bhagat said a case of rape had been registered in connection with the attack on the 19-year-old girl, who was found semi-naked by pedestrians on a road early on Thursday. Doctors at the city's Safdarjung Hospital said she that although she was suffering from trauma, there were no signs of external injuries. Reports said the woman, who is married and comes from from Nepal, was on the way to her brother's house from her employer's residence in the up-market Defence Colony neighbourhood when a car carrying the men stopped to ask her for directions and offered to drop her near her home.

The issue of sexual violence against women and girls has been under intense scrutiny in India after the rape and murder of a student on a Delhi bus in December led to widespread protests. Six people have been charged over the case which shocked the nation. Five of them are on trial in a specially convened fast-track court and face the death penalty. The sixth accused, a minor, is being tried in a juvenile court. All six accused have pleaded not guilty. Last month India passed a new bill containing harsher punishments, including the death penalty, for rapists.

BBC News - 'Raped' Delhi five-year-old in a critical condition

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Indian girl, 5, in serious condition after rape
Apr 20,`13 -- A 5-year-old girl was in serious condition Saturday after being raped and tortured by a man who held her in a locked room in India's capital for two days, officials said.

The incident - which came four months after the fatal gang rape of a woman on a New Delhi bus caused outrage across India about the treatment of women in the country - sparked protests against the authorities' handling of the case. The girl went missing Monday and was found Wednesday by neighbors who heard her crying in a room in the same New Delhi building where she lives with her parents, said Delhi police official Deepak Mishra. The girl was found alone locked in a room and left for dead, he said. A 24-year-old man who lived in the room where the girl was found was arrested Saturday in Muzaffarpur town in Bihar state, about 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) east of New Delhi, Mishra said. The man was flown to New Delhi, where a magistrate ordered that he be held in police custody.

The girl suffered severe internal injuries, as well as cuts and bite marks on her face and torso, said D.K. Sharma, the medical superintendent of the government-run hospital in New Delhi where she was being treated. Sharma described the girl's condition as "serious" and said doctors were trying to stabilize her condition. Meanwhile, hundreds of people in New Delhi protested Saturday near the home minister's residence and outside police headquarters demanding government action against the police for allegedly failing to immediately investigate after the girl was reported missing.

Rights activists and officials said the girl's parents went to police Monday to report their daughter was missing, but that police refused to register a case. The parents are poor construction workers who had migrated to the city some years ago in search of work. "The police did nothing. They did not register a complaint, the first step before they can begin investigations," said Ranjana Kumari, a women's rights activist and social scientist. "This heinous crime could have been prevented if police had begun investigations promptly." Police had no immediate comment on the accusations, but Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said Saturday that an inquiry had been ordered into the handling of the case.

The growing outrage against alleged police high-handedness in India led even the country's normally reticent leader to react. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called the police behavior "completely unacceptable." He conveyed to Delhi authorities "the need for the strictest possible action to be taken against the erring officials," the prime minister's office said in a statement late Friday. The fatal beating and gang rape of a young woman aboard a moving New Delhi bus in December sparked outrage and spurred the government to pass tough laws for crimes against women, including the death penalty for repeat offenders or for rape attacks that lead to the victim's death.

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2nd suspect arrested in rape of 5-year-old...

India police arrest second man over Delhi girl rape
22 April 2013 - Police in India say they have arrested a second man in connection with the kidnapping and rape of a five-year-old girl in the capital, Delhi, last week.

The man was arrested in Bihar state early on Monday. A suspect was also held in Bihar over the weekend. The condition of the girl is reported to have improved, as protests over the incident continue. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has called the incident an example of "depraved behaviour". The little girl was abducted on 15 April and attacked in a locked room for over 48 hours, police said. She was rescued by neighbours who heard her cries on 17 April. On Saturday, police arrested the first suspect, who has been remanded in custody. Another man allegedly present during the incident was subsequently arrested in Lakhisarai district in Bihar and was being brought to Delhi, police said.

'Responding well'

Doctors say the condition of the little girl, who is being treated at a city hospital, improved over the weekend. "We are trying to control the infection and she is responding well. It will take at least two weeks to discharge her," the chief of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, DK Sharma, said in a statement. Hundreds of people have protested against the incident outside the city police headquarters and the home of ruling Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi. There have been allegations that police ignored complaints by the girl's parents when she went missing.

There have been protests in Delhi over the attack

Mr Singh said on Sunday that his country had "vast improvements" to make on women's safety and that it was everyone's responsibility to provide security to women. "The gruesome assault on a little child a few days back reminds us of the need to work collectively to root out this sort of depravity from our society," he said. The issue of sexual violence against women and girls in India has been under intense scrutiny since the rape and murder of a student on a Delhi bus in December led to widespread protests.

Six people were charged over the case, which shocked the nation. Four are on trial in a specially-convened fast-track court and face the death penalty. A fifth suspect was found dead in prison. The sixth man, a minor, is being tried in a juvenile court. All the accused have pleaded not guilty. Last month India passed a new bill containing harsher punishments, including the death penalty, for rapists.

BBC News - India police arrest second man over Delhi girl rape

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Condition of Indian girl who was raped improves
Apr 21,`13 -- The condition of a 5-year-old girl who was raped, tortured and then left alone in a locked room for two days has improved, a doctor said, as protests continued in India's capital over the authorities' handling of the case.

The girl was in critical condition when she was transferred Thursday from a local hospital to the largest government-run hospital in the country. But D.K. Sharma, medical superintendent of the state-run hospital in New Delhi where the girl was being treated, said Sunday that she was responding well to treatment and that her condition had stabilized. Police say the girl went missing April 15 and was found two days later by neighbors who heard her crying in a locked room in the same New Delhi building where she lives with her family. The girl was alone when she was found, having been left for dead by the man following the brutal attack, police say.

A 24-year-old man was arrested Saturday in the eastern state of Bihar, about 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) from New Delhi. After being flown to New Delhi, he was in custody Sunday and was being questioned, police said. The attack came four months after the fatal gang rape of a woman on a New Delhi bus sparked outrage across India about the treatment of women in the country. For the second consecutive day, hundreds of people protested Sunday outside police headquarters in the capital, angry over allegations that police had ignored complaints by the girl's parents that she was missing.

About 100 supporters of the main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party protested outside the home of the chief of the ruling Congress Party, Sonia Gandhi, demanding that the government ensure the safety and security of women and girls in the city. The protesters also demanded that the Delhi police chief be removed from office and that police officials accused of failing to act on the parents' complaint be dismissed. "Police and other officials that fail to do their jobs and instead engage in abusive behavior should know that they will be punished," Meenakshi Ganguly, South Asia director of New York-based Human Rights Watch, said.

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Still waiting for change in gang-rape statistics in Delhi...

When can we expect change in Delhi's rape statistics?
14 June 2013 > Looking at recently released official data on crimes against women it is clear that there are no major surprises - at least as far as the figures for Delhi go.

More women were raped in Delhi than in any other of India's large cities in 2012, according to the National Crime Records Bureau in its latest figures. It says that the city of Delhi, home to 7.5 million women, recorded 585 cases of rape in 2012, compared with a total of 484 cases from the cities of Mumbai (232 cases), Calcutta (68), Chennai (94) and Bangalore (90 cases). Delhi, Mumbai and Calcutta are megacities with populations of more than 10 million people. Delhi also recorded the highest number of crimes against women out of the big cities: the capital accounted for 14.18% of crimes against women out of 53 cities surveyed in its latest report.

The gang rape of the 23-year-old woman shocked India

The report said 5,194 cases of crimes against women were reported from Delhi during 2012, up from 4,489 cases in 2011. As far as India is concerned, 244,270 incidents of crimes against women were reported from all over the country last year. Scrutiny of sexual violence in India has grown since the rape and murder of a student on a Delhi bus in December. The gang-rape of the student sparked widespread protests and prompted the government to alter laws relating to rape in India.

It is common knowledge that many incidents of rape and other crimes against women go unreported. But, going by recent reports, most cities are seeing an increase in recorded cases after the tragedy in Delhi and the introduction of new anti-rape laws. So this year's figures of crimes against women in Delhi - and the rest of India - which will be announced in 2014, will be far more significant than the latest set.

I will be surprised if we didn't see a sharp rise in incidents of all crimes against women, helping us to understand better how bad the situation is. But more significantly, the figures for 2103 will also begin to tell us whether the new anti-rape laws have spurred more victims to report crimes and the police to record and investigate them with alacrity.

BBC News - When can we expect change in Delhi's rape statistics?

 

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Nothing has changed in 5 years since rape and murder of Jyoti Singh...

Five years after the rape and murder of Jyoti Singh, nothing has changed in India
16 Dec.`17 - The death of the New Delhi student sparked a wave of protest but her parents say the situation for women is now worse

Five years ago today, Jyoti Singh got on a bus in New Delhi after going to watch The Life of Pi with a male friend. What happend next to her on that bus shocked not just India but the world – six men took it in turns to rape her and used an iron bar. When she died on December 29th of the dreadful internal injuries she had sustained in the attck, India and the world was transfixed by the story. Despite the demonstrations that took place all over India, campaigning for a safer society for women, virtually nothing has changed since then. Consistent and widespread gender-based violence towards women in India remains commonplace five years on, and is the country’s most shameful fact.

Joyti Singh, who was fatally assaulted by six men on a bus in Delhi.​

The Delhi Commission for Women found that between 2012 and 2014, there were 31,446 reported cases of crimes against women in the city. These were the cases that got reported: very many do not. From those crimes in excess of 30,000 against women, there were only 150 convictions. Jyoti Singh’s parents have remained in the public eye to campaign for justice for women and girls who are victims of sexual abuse. Talking to the Observer in Delhi this month, they spoke out in advance of the fifth anniversary of their daughter’s death. “Five years have gone. These five years have been really difficult for us. We suffered a lot,” her mother, Asha, said. Our emotional pain was enormous. Everyday girls are being raped and targeted for sexual assault, be it in Delhi or other states across the country.”

Asha Devi and Badrinath Singh, Jyoti’s parents, at home in Delhi.​

Her father, Badrinath, said the situation for women in India has gotten worse. “If you ask me if there has been any change in the system, I would say no with a capital N.” He went on to say, “The crime graph never stopped. It continued to grow day by day. The situation has worsened to such an extent that nowadays girl children are being raped in various parts of our country. I know my daughter will never come back. But this fight is not for us or our family. It is for many other Jyoti Singhs who are also like my daughter and suffered similar mishaps in life. This fight is to ensure safety for them.” Of the six men who gang raped Jyoti Singh that night, one, a juvenile, was released from prison after three years. One died in prison, although it is unclear whether through suicide or murder. The other four were sentenced to death; a sentence her parents Asha and Badrinath welcomed. They remain on death row while appeals continue.

Five years after the rape and murder of Jyoti Singh, nothing has changed in India

 

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Canada is not the best place to be a Native American woman.

 

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The worst place to be a woman in the whole world is undoubtedly Ethiopia. In Ethiopia, 95 % of women are under FGM. And the Ethiopian FGM is also the most invasive of all FGM practices.