Women Safety Whitepaper - Additional Inputs
Dear Friends,
We had originally submitted our Women and Child Safety whitepaper to Smt. Maneka Gandhi - Minister for Women and Child Development.
We would like to take the same to the Home Minister of India soon to request actions on the Women and Child Safety front.
Kindly review the below Issues, Root Causes and Solutions in light of the recent events and advise if you have anything additional to add.
Kindly mention what exactly are you writing about (Issue, Root Cause or Solution) as a prefix to your views. Please post your views as a comment to this post.
Thanks,
Rajendra Pratap Gupta
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Women and Child Safety in India (Issues, Root Causes, Solutions)
Key Issues Identified
1. Rapes
2. Killings
3. Assaults
4. Family Violence
5. Abuse (Physical and Verbal)
6. Sexual harassment at work
7. Eve teasing
8. Human trafficking
9. Child abduction
10. Child molestation
11. Child labour
Root Causes Identified
1. Men are not sensitive enough about women needs and their place in civil society
2. Women are still considered inferior to men
3. Men try to dominate women
4. Hard punishment is not given to offenders
5. Weak and time consuming judicial system
6. Not enough electronic surveillance around the cities
7. Non-existent/Ineffective emergency numbers and response mechanism to tackle women and child emergency situations
8. Lack of moral education in India’s education system
9. The Police is ineffective, has a bad image and considered not approachable
10. Lack of Women Toilets, special compartments, security in general.
11. Girl child is still treated as a taboo in various communities
12. Low literacy rates in rural India
13. Insufficient or Ineffective Self Help Groups
14. Child labour laws not implemented effectively
15. Electronic/print media projecting women as a commodity and an object of desire.
Solutions Identified
1. Reporting of crime against women to be made very quick and easy
2. Stricter censorship of movies, print and electronic media content
3. Sex education to be provided at school
4. Self-defence programs should be made mandatory for children at school
5. Counsellors in all government and private schools
6. A one-stop emergency helpline should be developed to help women/children in any distress
7. Setting up the dedicated, fast track benches in the existing courts with strict and harsh punishment for the offenders
8. Increase electronic surveillance
9. Women need to be empowered through Mobile and Social Media
10. Educating the society about gender discrimination
11. Better facilities for sanitation should be provided in rural areas
12. The image of police should be given a makeover and they should become easy to approach
13. More representation of Women and their participation in law making
14. Special court with retired IPS & Judges(50% female) for rape, deadline within 60 days verdict should be out
15. Punishment of 14 years or higher for rape, and death for rape & murder more
We had originally submitted our Women and Child Safety whitepaper to Smt. Maneka Gandhi - Minister for Women and Child Development.
We would like to take the same to the Home Minister of India soon to request actions on the Women and Child Safety front.
Kindly review the below Issues, Root Causes and Solutions in light of the recent events and advise if you have anything additional to add.
Kindly mention what exactly are you writing about (Issue, Root Cause or Solution) as a prefix to your views. Please post your views as a comment to this post.
Thanks,
Rajendra Pratap Gupta
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Women and Child Safety in India (Issues, Root Causes, Solutions)
Key Issues Identified
1. Rapes
2. Killings
3. Assaults
4. Family Violence
5. Abuse (Physical and Verbal)
6. Sexual harassment at work
7. Eve teasing
8. Human trafficking
9. Child abduction
10. Child molestation
11. Child labour
Root Causes Identified
1. Men are not sensitive enough about women needs and their place in civil society
2. Women are still considered inferior to men
3. Men try to dominate women
4. Hard punishment is not given to offenders
5. Weak and time consuming judicial system
6. Not enough electronic surveillance around the cities
7. Non-existent/Ineffective emergency numbers and response mechanism to tackle women and child emergency situations
8. Lack of moral education in India’s education system
9. The Police is ineffective, has a bad image and considered not approachable
10. Lack of Women Toilets, special compartments, security in general.
11. Girl child is still treated as a taboo in various communities
12. Low literacy rates in rural India
13. Insufficient or Ineffective Self Help Groups
14. Child labour laws not implemented effectively
15. Electronic/print media projecting women as a commodity and an object of desire.
Solutions Identified
1. Reporting of crime against women to be made very quick and easy
2. Stricter censorship of movies, print and electronic media content
3. Sex education to be provided at school
4. Self-defence programs should be made mandatory for children at school
5. Counsellors in all government and private schools
6. A one-stop emergency helpline should be developed to help women/children in any distress
7. Setting up the dedicated, fast track benches in the existing courts with strict and harsh punishment for the offenders
8. Increase electronic surveillance
9. Women need to be empowered through Mobile and Social Media
10. Educating the society about gender discrimination
11. Better facilities for sanitation should be provided in rural areas
12. The image of police should be given a makeover and they should become easy to approach
13. More representation of Women and their participation in law making
14. Special court with retired IPS & Judges(50% female) for rape, deadline within 60 days verdict should be out
15. Punishment of 14 years or higher for rape, and death for rape & murder more
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B.K.Srivathsa All Govt officials shall take oath in the name of their family and children that they will never take a bribe. the oath shall be in the form of a writing and this shall be hung above their working spaces more
Feb 04
Women safety : safety relies on natural principle . for e.g. if you dress short and mosquitoes are not controled in your area . you are likely to get bite. Eventhough a govt is having a big dept still difficult to eradicat mosquitoes.hence person has to their safety measure to get protected by Following guides published by statutory institution. similarly women's safety requires certain norm like way n means to get protected. Not to stroll in the area without any safety features known or available. Wear provokative dress unless you know how to defand fro m any undue situation. You know that even safety locker can't be safe. So it needs a stretagic policy includes awareness controls norm to follow by women . more
Feb 04
In our country we have both extremes. In some parts, women are given below par position, while in some parts women are given much voice and power. Both contribute to violence against women. Causes such as poverty, upbringing, disappointments in life must be addressed through awareness and education. God made men and women both purposefully. Both are equal contributors to a good life. Roles and functions may vary but one is not to be considered disadvantaged vis-a-vis the other. Strict and severe punishments against perpetrators will help to minimise the problem. But mutual respect may eradicate the problem altogether. In our scriptures, women are soft in nature, but if tormented may turn very destructive, so they are not weak. more
Jan 10
It seems @Mr Rajendra Prasad Guptaji that all solutions given by you are inherited from westerners and nowhere indian darshan Adwaitwad is used to understand thesr issues. It id very sad for india thst indians are loosing their identity to copy thought of westerners. All educated people follow more western thinking and the issues which you are studying are more prevailent there moreover even in US this philosophy of western life has disturbed sexuality of most of the western people but just because western people are making more money either they collect it by hook or crook we think those like god and follow them. more
Dec 18
Westerner think this world in a materialistic sense and they pushed their way of life to everybody in the world. We all need to ponder over on this issue seriously. more
Dec 18
