Women’s safety : Are they safe?

 

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Why in news : Recently we have seen that  a girl was gang raped/raped in   RG Kar medical college of Kolkata . It was a heinous crime against a girl . We the Indians always worship our deity in the form of Shakti Swaroopa goddesses like Devi durga ji , Parvati ji etc. But when it comes to the security of our women we always shut our mouth . The persons who stand for any women or girl are often criticized by many other type of people.

Are women safe in world? : Generally our country is considered as the Rape country of the world but many nations around the world is facing a very huge problem regarding this concern. Let’s understand it by some examples :

·      Sweden which is known as one of the most peaceful country of the world is facing the violence and sexual harassment against women very badly . In 2020 it has reported about 8000 rape cases while if we talk about rate of rapes in the Europe… Sweden becomes first in this list . It is 90 on per 100000 persons.

·      About 20 percent of women of USA are facing the sexual harassment.

·      A report on sexual harassment by WHO says that 1 in every 3 girl/women in the world are facing the sexual harassment.

·      South Africa in 2020-21 has seen about 40000 rape cases .

And many other countries which are developed are facing a huge problem regarding this concern.

What may be the reason behind it ? :  The crime against a woman is always said to be crime against humanity.  There are many cause related to these cases . Let us explore some of them …..

·      Lesson given by the parents : In our Bharat the girls are always taught to be submissive . It is also seen that the parents always try to feel their child girls that they are too much sensitive with respect to the boys of the society.  They never teach their girl child to be courageous. This becomes a huge problem for the girls in future .

·      Patriarchal society: Our society has always shown that the male always dominate over the female in every cases . The society always demoralizes  to our girls in these cases . Due to which they are unable to learn those things which are common to both genders . Many cases are in the society where the girls are never kept equal as like boys in family or society.

Objectification of girls : Our cruel society has always considered to our women or the girls as an object.  The Objectification is always wrong for our society .

There are many other problems like non- sensitivization of girls the discrimination from birthplace to workplace , also on the basis of caste , religion , class always happened in our society.

A report published by National Crime Record Bureau in 2022 shows that there are 450000 cases in Bharat which are against the women violence. 

Many steps regarding safety of women has been taken . Let us discuss some of them …

Vishakha guidelines : In the case of Vishakha vs the state of Rajasthan   Supreme court made a guidelines regarding this . It is popularly known as Vishakha guidelines.  In this a important decisions was taken regarding sexual harassment of women at workplace or any other place .

Justice verma committee : This committee was made after  A very heinous rape case o which is also known as NIRBHAYA CASE OF 2012 . This committee submitted it’s report in 2013 and asked government to make strict laws for sexual harassment and on women violence also .

Bhartiya nagrik samhita 2023  has also made strict laws for security of  women  from the Rape case . Section 64 and 65 of bns gives strict punishment after the Rape of a women.

Recently government of west Bengal has came with a law known as APRAJITA women and child act 2024 . In this act there is a strong punishment given to accuse within 21 days.

There are several other judgements regarding safety of women.

How our judiciary and administration is responsible? : In Bharat a proverb is generally said for out judiciary that Justice delayed is Justice denied. The courts in Bharat has became a secure places for the peoples who have done any type of crime . Although we believe in our system but we are not satisfied by the functioning of the system . A case generally takes 4 to 5 years  to complete it .

Our administration  is very lazy in taking action against the person who has done the crime . They became Active in only two cases. First when any side of that case gives them a huge amount of money in the form of bribe and second when there is an strict order from their seniors and political parties.

Conclusion: I have nothing more to say in this part . But our society must respect the feelings of every girl as well as women . And also the women or girl must respect the emotions of their parents as well as the society . It’s request to every male persons that create your personality so big that a girl or women always feels safe when she is with you . And in the last I want to say that ….

यत्र नार्यस्तु पूज्यन्ते रमन्ते तत्र देवता:।

यत्रैतास्तु न पूज्यन्ते सर्वास्तत्राफला: क्रिया:।

Where Women are honoured, divinity blossoms there, and where ever women are dishonoured, all action no matter how noble it may be, remains unfruitful.


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