SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN INDIA - Women's Link …

26-05-2013 Subject: Human Rights III. Spring Semester 2013 C-Thesis (61-90 hp). Supervisor: Susan Jackson Department of Global Political Studies SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN INDIA . Author: Arun Ignatius 1. Preface INDIA , a nation which had Mahatma Gandhi as its role model of rectitude became so unbelievably violent and corrupt that the women can no longer be safe within their bodies. Gandhi who defeated the whites to save the browns by relying on non- VIOLENCE is considered as the father of the nation, but his values are being betrayed so easily that a woman is raped every twenty minutes1 in the world's largest democracy and even children of five years are subjected to rape2. Economists predict that the future belongs to INDIA as the country is obsessed with inclusive growth and the men with status and power, but the women who give birth to these men live in fear of discrimination and SEXUAL VIOLENCE . Who will protect the nation's women? This inspired me to choose the subject SEXUAL VIOLENCE /rape' in INDIA for the study and the inspiration that guided me to learn more about the topic made me interested in writing about it.

3 Abstract This study is about gender based sexual violence in India. Rape is prevalent in many parts of the world but the reason to select India is because rape is the fastest growing crime in the

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