Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

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

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par 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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