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Não é apenas uma história sobre o que um ser humano decente pode fazer mas também sobre os malefícios -escusados- e consequências de se manter as mulheres ignorantes, sem educção e sem acesso, em igualdade, ao trabalho: sociedades ignorantes, depressivas e recidivas nos mesmos eternos erros que custam enorme sofrimento a milhões de pessoas.

Acerca do documentário indiano com a entrevista ao violador assassino que culpa a vítima de ser mulher e da polémica sobre a censura indiana ao documentário.

India Must Kick Out #Politicians with #Rape Records!

In the aftermath of the Delhi Gang Rape uprising, one of the BIGGEST OBSTACLES standing in the way of system reform is that India permits men charge-sheeted with rape and other violent crimes against women, to run for government offices!

The Association for Democratic Reforms in India reports that 6 MLAs (Members of the Legislative Assembly), and 2 MPs (Members of Parliament), have  declared in their official affidavits that they have pending rape cases against them.  36 other MLAs have cases pending with other charges of crimes against women such as sexual assault.

Below is a report on one such politician charged in a gang-rape case which became known as the Suryavelli case after village where the incident had taken place. Read it, and then sign this petition demanding these politicians be kicked out and put on trial! The government of India must clean up!

rape statistics in India

In a rapidly changing country, rape cases have increased at an alarming rate, roughly 25 percent in six years. To some degree, this reflects a rise in reporting by victims. But India’s changing gender dynamic is also a significant factor, as more females are attending school, entering the work force or choosing their own spouses — trends that some men regard as a threat.

India’s news media regularly carry horrific accounts of gang rapes, attacks once rarely seen. Sometimes, gangs of young men stumble upon a young couple — in some cases the couple is meeting furtively in a conservative society — and then rape the woman. Analysts also point to demographic trends: India has a glut of young males, some unemployed, abusing alcohol or drugs and unnerved by the new visibility of women in society.

“This visibility is seen as a threat and a challenge,” said Ranjana Kumari, who runs the Center for Social Research in New Delhi.

In Haryana, the initial response to the rape after it was disclosed ranged from denial to denouncing the media to blaming the victim. A spokesman for the governing Congress Party was quoted as saying that 90 percent of rape cases begin as consensual sex. Women’s groups were outraged after a village leader pointed to teenage girls’ sexual desire as the reason for the rapes.

“I think that girls should be married at the age of 16, so that they have their husbands for their sexual needs, and they don’t need to go elsewhere,” the village leader, Sube Singh, told IBN Live, a news channel. “This way rapes will not occur.”

Índia é um dos países onde o feticídio de género feminino é muito alto. O mais alto a seguir à China. A guerra mais antiga do planeta é a que os homens fazem às mulheres. E ninguém faz nada porque o importante no planeta é o petróleo e o dinheiro.

The Unspeakable Truth About Rape in India - NYTimes.com

India has laws against rape; seats reserved for women in buses, female officers; special police help lines. But these measures have been ineffective in the face of a patriarchal and misogynistic culture. It is a culture that believes that the worst aspect of rape is the defilement of the victim, who will no longer be able to find a man to marry her — and that the solution is to marry the rapist.

These beliefs aren’t restricted to living rooms, but are expressed openly. In the months before the gang rape, some prominent politicians had attributed rising rape statistics to women’s increasing use of cellphones and going out at night. “Just because India achieved freedom at midnight does not mean that women can venture out after dark,” said Botsa Satyanarayana, the Congress Party leader in the state of Andhra Pradesh.

The volume of protests in public and in the media has made clear that the attack was a turning point. The unspeakable truth is that the young woman attacked on Dec. 16 was more fortunate than many rape victims. She was among the very few to receive anything close to justice. She was hospitalized, her statement was recorded and within days all six of the suspected rapists were caught and, now, charged with murder. Such efficiency is unheard-of in India.

In retrospect it wasn’t the brutality of the attack on the young woman that made her tragedy unusual; it was that an attack had, at last, elicited a response.

 

Sonia Faleiro

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