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Sexual violence is not a cultural phenomenon in India - it is endemic everywhere
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of The Independent (One of the UK's leading newspapers)


The Independent (One of the UK's leading newspapers), December 30, 2012
Posted: January 8th, 2013
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/sexual-violence-...

The death of a woman popularly named Damini lightning in Hindi has provoked thousands to take to Indias streets, furious at endemic and unchecked violence against women. Some have been met with police batons, tear gas and water cannon. But, in the West, Daminis death has triggered a different response: a sense that this is an Indian-specific problem. The crime has highlighted the prevalence of sex attacks in India, says the Daily Telegraph; India tries to move beyond its rape culture, says Reuters. Its comforting to think that this is someone elses problem. It is an assumption that is as wrong as it is dangerous. Rape and sexual violence against women are endemic everywhere. Shocked by what happened in India? Take a look at France. In 1999, two then-teenagers named only as Nina and Stephanie were raped almost every day for six months. Young men would queue up to rape them, patiently waiting for their friends to finish in secluded basements. After a three-week trial this year, 10 of the 14 accused left the courtroom as free men; the other four were granted lenient sentences of one year at most. Shocked? According to the [UK] Governments Action Plan on Violence Against Women and Girls, 80,000 women are raped a year, and 400,000 women are sexually assaulted [in the UK]. It is a pandemic of violence against women that given its scale is not discussed nearly enough.

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