New Delhi, India - Gang rapes and other sex crimes against women in India are being
committed with such brazenness that they seem to originate with the
thought that it is easy to get away after the crime.
Brutal rapes are taking place with such frequency and in such a
variety of ways that rapes have become the sole focus of our attention
in the context of crimes against women. In the process, India has become
blind to the vast, organised racket of human trafficking of minors and
young women for the sex trade.
When Union Home Minister Sushil kumar Shinde says that “as a father of
three daughters,” he is interested in getting a deterrent punishment
for rapists, or that, “…It could happen to my daughters also,” he is
essentially reflecting the deep insecurity over the safety and security
of young women in the country. While speaking to reporters outside
Parliament in Delhi on December 20, Shinde said that the horrific
gang-rape and assault of a Delhi student in a moving bus on Sunday night
could not be allowed to be forgotten as another statistic. “How can we
forget it…It could happen to my daughters also,” he remarked. Continue Reading...
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