I agree with this article!
India is indeed the worst country for women amongst the G20 nations as described. Its not a matter of pride that India is better than African countries like Congo or Somalia which are far more backward in economy and development.
In reality, India cannot call itself a developed country unless they protect the rights and dignity of half of its population, the female half!
I know what Im saying because I grew up in India, spent the first 3 decades of my life there.
Every single day, girls and young women there have to face harassment and indecent behavior in buses, public transport, workplaces, commuter trains, crowded places, sometimes even in educational institutions!
Everyday, girls step out of their homes ready to face neighbourhood scoundrels, heckling on the streets, the so called eve-teasers, who also hang around girls' schools and colleges.
Every day there are dowry deaths, domestic abuse, rapes, molestations, trafficking of females, female infanticide, female foeticide and countless cases of abuse and torture of women and young girls!
We have faced this growing up as girls in India, we used to read abt these cases then... yet this violence continues against countless girls and women even today!
Modernization has changed nothing, in fact technology has made it worse, as now there are the added crimes of making indecent MMS and blackmailing the victim, etc.
One just has to read newspaper headlines to know and acknowledge the truth! Closing your eyes to the horrors going around will not change the reality!
After the Nirbhaya incident, the whole world views India as a country of rapists and we cannot deny what is still happening there.
The laws were changed, punishment made more severe for rape and molestation, but these are not being implemented properly and have done nothing to deter the criminals!
In fact such crimes went up by 20% in 2013...
Many of these cases do happen in villages where people are illiterate and society is backward and horribly patriarchal and savage in outlook!
But what abt the recurring cases in Delhi, the rape capital of India? What abt such cases in metropolitan cities like Mumbai and Kolkata?
And what about the school rapes in Bangalore, the IT capital of India? We have all been shocked and horrified by the pedophiles attacking little girls as young as 3 and 6 yr old in that city's schools!
Why arent they protecting the little children in those expensive schools? Why cant the teaching staff accompany the little kids everywhere instead of letting them wander off and become victims of pedophiles?
In the west, there are many such child abuse cases, thats why the schools and parents are extra protective abt the kids! Kids are taught from very young age not to trust strangers, its called Stranger-danger.
Why cant Indian schools implement programs to teach little kids abt stranger danger and also provide constant protection to kids while they are at school? Why arent there female attendants on school buses?
Instead of being in denial and ignoring such horrifying cases, the public shd get angry and demand tougher laws, punishments and demand constant protection of little children who are the most vulnerable!
And ALL girls starting from their teens shd learn some sort of self defence to protect themselves since Indian mothers wont teach their sons how to respect girls and treat them as human beings.
Anybody heard of the 50 million missing? The 50 million girls who are missing from population of India because they were killed in the womb or immediately after birth?
That is a statistics that cannot be denied in any way!
Of course there is misogyny, gender injustice and gender violence in the west too but they have better laws in place and criminals are punished most of the time, especially for more horrible crimes of child abuse. And nobody kills female foetuses in the west or drowns newborn female infants in milk! Such offenders would get the death sentence!
Edited by pallavi25 - 10 years ago
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