Sunday, December 15, 2013

Indian women won't be safe until society changes, says gang-rape victim's father...

Women in India will never be safe until society changes its attitudes, the father of the Delhi gang-rape victim said on the anniversary of the assault which killed her.

His daughter, who became known as ‘Nirbhaya’ or ‘the fearless one’, was gang-raped, beaten with rods and left for dead after she boarded a bus home from the cinema with a male friend on December 16th last year. She died from her injuries 13 days later.

The savagery of the attack and the determination of the victim, a 23-year-old physiotherapy student, to survive and bring her rapists to justice provoked protests throughout India and national soul-searching.

But one year after the incident, the victim’s family is still deep in grief and fearful for India's women who they say remain in danger.

“As long as the mindset of the society will not change, women can never be safe out on the roads..every other day cases of rape and sexual harassment are getting reported, where is the change? I don’t see any change,” said Badrinath Singh, her father. Full story...

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