Fw: Thanks for taking action

[alice crasta]

 

Yours Sincerely,

Sr.Alice Crasta (S.C.C.G)
St.Francis Convent Secunderabad 500 025,
Cell : +91 9849528545

 

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Sent: Friday, 8 February 2013 10:34 AM
Subject: Thanks for taking action

Thank you for taking action to end India's rape epidemic.

Send the email below to friends and family, and post this link on your Facebook wall.

http://www.avaaz.org/en/india_justice_for_rape_victims_fax/?trcgGab

Thanks again for your help,

The Avaaz team

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Dear friends across India,

In a nasty Sunday surprise, the President put his seal of approval on laws that can make it even harder to punish rapists. With the country on the streets for weeks demanding bold action, this pathetic first response is a slap in the face to women. But now together we can shame the President into action.

In a hurried move, President Pranab Mukherjee signed a deeply flawed law that continues to allow husbands to rape wives and soldiers to rape civilians. This mockery of the Verma Committee report does nothing to challenge the epidemic scale of rape across India. President Mukherjee is close to Sonia Gandhi and has real clout in the ruling Congress Party. If he sees how outraged we all are, he will warn the government that we won’t put up with repeated failures on women’s rights.

President Mukherjee can’t be President for only half the Republic. Let's send him a deafening message urging him to promise that he won't sign any new anti-rape legislation that doesn't fully implement the Verma Committee's recommendations. Click below and help get thousands of messages streaming into the Presidential palace calling for strong action to end the rape epidemic:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/india_justice_for_rape_victims_fax/?tta

After the massive street protests that followed the heinous gang-rape of a 23-year-old student, the government set up a committee headed by Justice Verma to recommend ways to end the rape epidemic. A loud cheer went up around India when the Committee challenged male power across all of India's male-dominated institutions and recommended sweeping reforms to transform the way women are viewed under the law.

Shockingly, the government's response was to claim Justice Verma overstepped his authority and to remove his report from the Home Ministry's website -- indicating that our politicians don't care enough to address the challenge. Next the government brought forward a deeply flawed law that fails to attack the rape epidemic in homes and areas under army occupation. Citizens begged President Pranab Mukherjee not to sign it, but he refused to listen to the people of India, hastily signing the new law claiming it will deter criminals. A bill will be introduced in the coming session of Parliament but no one knows what it contains. For now, the only thing we can see is a President agreeing to new rules that are more anti-justice than anti-rape!

We don't have time to lose. The government is trying to paint the protesters as just a few silly feminists, but together we can show them that ending the culture of impunity that drives the rape epidemic is something everyone agrees on. Just as we forced them to set up the Verma Committee, we can force them to implement it. Click below and tell President Mukherjee that this week he failed women and we expect much more from him in the coming months.

http://www.avaaz.org/en/india_justice_for_rape_victims_fax/?tta

Avaaz members have fought against government corruption and lethargy at all levels - from a small hospital in Punjab that killed a baby to the power circles of Delhi where laws are made. Together we are are a force that can’t be ignored -- let's use it now to turn the tide against the prevailing culture of rape.

With hope,

Meredith, Alaphia, Luis, Alice, Ricken, Alex, Mais, Wissam and the rest of the Avaaz team


MORE INFORMATION

The Government vs. the Committee (Wall Street Journal):
http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2013/02/05/the-government-vs-the-committee/

President signs ordinance to effect changes in laws against sexual crimes (India Today):
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/president-signs-ordinance-to-effect-changes-in-laws-against-sexual-crimes/1/248740.html

Curing India's rape epidemic: The education option (Avaaz):
https://avaazmedia.s3.amazonaws.com/AVAAZ_How%20to%20cure%20India%27s%20Rape%20Epidemic.pdf

Activists oppose making rape gender-neutral (Times of India):
http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-07-20/india/32763268_1_gender-sexual-violence-crpc

Verma panel recommendations not rejected, asserts Chidambaram (The Hindu):
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-in-school/verma-panel-recommendations-not-rejected-asserts-chidambaram/article4380328.ece

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