Women in India face daily threat of sexual violence – more needs to be done to break the cycle

By Madhumita Pandey, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Sheffield Hallam University

Twelve years ago, in 2012, people around the world read with horror as details emerged of how a 22-year-old woman named Jyoti Singh was raped on a bus in New Delhi by six men. She died from her injuries in hospital less than two weeks later.

The incident, which is commonly known as the Nirbhaya case, became a watershed moment for India and focused the national conversation on violence against women. Massive protests…

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