Mobile App Offers Indian Women Lifeline in Fight Against Rape. Rape is the most common crime against women in India, where the number of rape cases have doubled between 1990 and 2008.
Amidst the search for a solution, people are turning to technology, such as easy-to-use and free mobile application for the ubiquitous cell phone. The Smart Suraksha App is an Android application focused on giving Indian women a greater sense of security. It can send a distress message to five pre-chosen contacts at the press of a single button. Along with the message for help, it also sends information about the user's current location even if the GPS option on the cell phone itself is switched off. Thus, women can be reassured that their call for help will always reach someone. Indian blog directory Blogadda recently arranged a blog competition titled “I wish I had Smart Suraksha” to spread the words.
India's acid attack recommendations risk rubbing salt into survivors' wounds. India's supreme court has announced a raft of orders to regulate the sale of acid in an attempt to curb attacks on women.
Last week it ruled that acid should be sold only to people above 18 with valid identity cards. Buyers will have to explain why they need the substance, sales must be reported to the police, and, in the case of an attack, the accused will not be granted bail. India gang-rape sentencing shows attitudes to women are changing. As a teenager growing up in Delhi I was regularly sexually harassed.
I never made a complaint, though, because I never thought this harassment was out of the ordinary. I assumed that's how the world was. That all women, all over the world, were hounded in public. That we were cautious and fearful; and that every day someone would say or do something to underscore our extreme vulnerability. Where prices rise and the value of women declines - Analysis. The hidden cost of inflation is that women become more vulnerable says Swarna Rajagopalan.
Scores of women marching through the streets of 1970s Bombay, brandishing belans and beating steel plates with them, in protest against rising prices—the image of this novel and effective protest is what I recall as I start writing this. How do rising prices affect women in all the different ways in which they are economic actors? Entering alien territory—economics—to understand this, much of what I found addresses women primarily in their role as caregivers and then, as consumers of essential items. The rising price of food strains household budgets and consumption. A SEWA study in 2009 found as a result of food inflation, the number of meals a household consumed had come down. As wages rarely increase commensurate with prices, the challenge of providing enough to eat, means that a household has to trade off other costs.
In general, inflation pushes households further into debt and poverty. Why aren't women and girls safe in India? - Analysis. How do we make every place safe for women, men and others?
How do we make freedom from fear of violence a part of who we are? By taking responsibility. As I sit down to write this, newspapers are reporting the gang-rape of a Mumbai journalist. People are posting the link everywhere, and in a while, comments and announcements about protests will follow. We’ve been here before. Why aren’t India’s women and girls safe? ‘Sexual harassment at work place high’ Women Long to Work in Peace. Active Citizens, Asia-Pacific, Civil Society, Economy & Trade, Featured, Gender, Gender Identity, Gender Violence, Headlines, Labour, Projects, Regional Categories, TerraViva Europe, Women & Economy The well known poetess Sugathakumari speaks at a meeting about sexual violence against women in Thiruvananthapuram.
Credit: K.S. Harikrishnan/IPS - Shaken by the brutal gang rape and murder of a young woman in the national capital New Delhi last December, the female workforce in India is calling for more concrete measures for the protection of female employees from both physical and non-physical attacks. Although the Union Government has passed a bill in Parliament to protect female employees from sexual harassment in the workplace, women are demanding long-term measures to implement the law and punish the guilty.
According to the Indian constitution, sexual harassment infringes on women’s fundamental right to gender equality under Article 14 and her right to live with dignity under Article 21. Rape on trial in Delhi: Exceptional and revolting. Women in India: Death and the maiden. Rape in Asia: Too much of bad thing. Daily chart: Too much of a bad thing. Comments on Women in India: Ending the shame. Economist india rape. One in Four Men Surveyed in Asian Study Say They Raped. Almost one in four men surveyed in Asia said they committed rape at least once, in a study that may encourage renewed steps to prevent sexual violence.
One in 10 men said they had raped a woman who wasn’t their partner, the researchers found. When partners were included, the figure rose to 24 percent. Just under half of the perpetrators said they had raped more than one woman. Top Afghan policewoman killed months after predecessor's assassination. Lieutenant Nigara was a well-respected officer whose work went far beyond the female body searches that fill the days of many policewomen.
