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Crime Capital: Why Delhi Is by Far India’s Most Dangerous City
India’s capital accounted for 25% of the 670,000 crimes recorded in India’s 53 largest cities in 2015. Delhi is India’s biggest megacity, home of the country’s central government and, according to new police data, way ahead of the competition in the quest to claim the title as the country’s capital of crime. The National Crime…
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Crime Against Women in India
Background and History Crime against women has been a bane of India’s development efforts. With arcane customs like sex being a taboo in India, Sati, and Dowry, and the overall lower status of women further exacerbates these crimes. From the last decade’s crime statistics, we see sharp number of crimes registered under ‘Cruelty by Husband…
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Safety of Women Night Workers in India – Big issue
Since the Delhi gang-rape case, India has been taking molest cases quite seriously but even today women hesitate from working at nights. Till today women feel unsafe while traveling from their workplace to homes. Even in this 21st century, families of the women working at night live with an uncertainty and insecurity. What is the…
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Failing our children – Sexual violence amongst children is notoriously difficult to measure in India
The epidemic proportions child sexual abuse have reached in the country is a comment on where our society is heading. The sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach of every parent is about whether her child is safe from predators. Unless we change as a society we will keep on. Child sexual abuse…
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India is the most dangerous country for women- It must face reality
A global survey exposes a vicious cultural agreement that women have little value in our society. I am proud of the beauty and the ancient culture of my country, India. I am not proud of the fact that India has been named the most dangerous country in the world for women in a recent Thomson…