Of all the rich G20 nations, India has been labelled the worst place to be for a woman, and yet it prides itself on being the World's largest democracy.
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One evening two weeks ago, just a few miles downhill, a young student left a bar and was set upon by a gang of at least 18 men. They dragged her into the road by her hair, tried to rip off her clothes and smiled at the cameras that filmed it all. It was around 9.30pm on one of Guwahati's busiest streets – a chaotic three-lane thoroughfare soundtracked by constantly beeping horns and chugging tuk-tuks. But for at least 20 minutes, no one called the police. They easily could have. Many of those present had phones: they were using them to film the scene as the men yanked up the girl's vest and tugged at her bra and groped her breasts as she begged for help from passing cars. We know this because a cameraman from the local TV channel was there too, capturing the attack for his viewers' enjoyment. The woman was abused for 45 minutes before the police arrived.
Within half an hour, clips were broadcast on Assam's NewsLive channel. Watching across town, Sheetal Sharma and Bitopi Dutta were horrified. "I was fuming like anything. There was this horrible, brutal assault being shown on screen – and the most disturbing thing was, the blame was being put on the woman, who, the report emphasised, was drunk," says Sharma, a 29-year-old feminist activist from the North-East Network, a women's rights organisation in Guwahati. "The way it was filmed, the camera was panning up and down her body, focusing on her breasts, her thighs," says Dutta, her 22-year-old colleague.
It was only a few days later, when the clip had gone viral and had been picked up by the national channels in Delhi, that the police were shamed into action. By then, Guwahati residents had taken matters into their own hands, producing an enormous banner that they strung up alongside one of the city's arterial roads featuring screen grabs of the main suspects. Six days after the attack, the chief minister of Assam, the state where Guwahati is located, ordered the police to arrest a dozen key suspects. He met the victim and promised her 50,000 rupees (£580) compensation.
Indian women, such as these three in Bawana, on the outskirts of Delhi, frequently come under pressure to abort female foetuses.
Kwa kifupi, according to the news, wanawake wa India mpaka leo wanauzwa kama bidhaa, wanaozeshwa kindoa kuanzia wakifika miaka 10, wanaweza chomwa moto kutokana na kutoafikiana kimahari ( wanawake ndio huwa wanatoa mahari na si wanaume) hii pia imefanya India kuongoza katika utoaji wa mimba za watoto wa kike kwasababu kwa wale wazazi masikini huogopa kuja kushindwa kutoa mahari. Wanawake huwa pia exploited and abused as domestic sex labourers, na kuna sehemu hadi leo wanawake wanapanda mabasi yao wenyewe na wanaume ya kwao.
Mengine ni kama haya:
Last Wednesday, a man in Indore was arrested for keeping his wife's genitals locked. Sohanlal Chouhan, 38, "drilled holes" on her body and, before he went to work each day, would insert a small lock, tucking the keys under his socks.
Earlier this month, children were discovered near Bhopal playing with a female foetus they had mistaken for a doll in a bin. In the southern state of Karnataka, a dentist was arrested after his wife accused him of forcing her to drink his urine because she refused to meet dowry demands.
In June, a father beheaded his 20-year-old daughter with a sword in a village in Rajasthan, western India, parading her bleeding head around as a warning to other young women who might fall in love with a lower-caste boy.( Hii hapa ndio imenichosha kabisaaaa)
Source: The Guardian 23rd, July.
Hizo ni badhii ya manyanyaso wanawake wakihindi wanayapitia kwasababu ya jinsia yao. Tooooo sad!
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