Rape and Murder in Delhi; India's Women  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 406 no. 8817 (Jan. 2013), page 8-9.
Topik: Rape; Demonstrations & Protests; Murders & Murder Attempts; Women; Social Conditions & Trends; Culture; Middle Class

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India has seen massive turnout at protests concerning the murderous gang-rape of a 23-year-old woman on a bus in Delhi on a mid-December evening. In India rape has long been depressingly common. Indian women are far too vulnerable to violent assaults. The reason people took to the streets is that a growing middle class is uniting to make its voice heard. The hope is that their protests will at last mark an advance for India's beleaguered women. The UN's human-rights chief calls rape in India a "national problem". Rapes and the ensuing deaths (often from suicide), are routinely described in India's press. Delhi has a miserable but deserved reputation for being unsafe, especially for poor and low-caste women. As young men migrate from the country into huge, crowded slums, their predation goes unchecked. Prosecution rates for rape are dismally low and convictions lower still--as in many countries. Amid this sea of misery, the anonymous medical student's fate stood out chiefly because she was representative of India's emerging middle class. The strength of the reaction means that something good may yet come from this crime. But the journey will be a long one.

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