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Sexual violence is not a cultural phenomenon in India - it is endemic everywhere
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Sexual violence is not a cultural phenomenon in India - it is endemic
everywhere
Cases are not discussed nearly enough for how prevalent the crimes are
Owen Jones
Sunday 30 December 2012
....Rape and sexual violence against women are endemic everywhere.
Shocked by what happened in India? Take a look at France, that
prosperous bastion of European civilisation. 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? Again, let us Brits not get all high and mighty, either.
Amnesty International conducted a poll in the United Kingdom a few
years ago. Only four per cent of respondents thought that the number
of women raped each year exceeded 10,000. But according to the
Government’s Action Plan on Violence Against Women and Girls, 80,000
women are raped a year, and 400,000 women are sexually assaulted. It
is a pandemic of violence against women that – given its scale – is
not discussed nearly enough....
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/sexual-violence-is-not-a-cultural-phenomenon-in-india--it-is-endemic-everywhere-8433445.html
everywhere
Cases are not discussed nearly enough for how prevalent the crimes are
Owen Jones
Sunday 30 December 2012
....Rape and sexual violence against women are endemic everywhere.
Shocked by what happened in India? Take a look at France, that
prosperous bastion of European civilisation. 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? Again, let us Brits not get all high and mighty, either.
Amnesty International conducted a poll in the United Kingdom a few
years ago. Only four per cent of respondents thought that the number
of women raped each year exceeded 10,000. But according to the
Government’s Action Plan on Violence Against Women and Girls, 80,000
women are raped a year, and 400,000 women are sexually assaulted. It
is a pandemic of violence against women that – given its scale – is
not discussed nearly enough....
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/sexual-violence-is-not-a-cultural-phenomenon-in-india--it-is-endemic-everywhere-8433445.html
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