Woman safety has become a problem in India and and more so when 바카라stalkers, molesters and rapists are sitting in the parliamenrt바카라, retired IPS officer and former DGP Prakash Singh said on Saturday.
Singh along with Delhi Women바카라s Commission chairperson Swati Maliwal, former Diplomat Deepa Wadhwa and Trans rights activist Laxmi Narayan Tripathi were speaking at Outlook Speakout 2019 on the issue of women safety in India.
"When you have stalkers and molesters and rapists sitting in the Parliament, what do you expect the people to do. Unfortunately, they have become our role models," Prakash Singh said.
Singh said there has been an erosion in the values of Indian people. 바카라Values which we inherited from our parents, teachers, which we imbibed from the politicians of our country. Imagine the kind of politicians we had during Independence and compare them with calibre of politicians today," he said.
Echoing Singh바카라s views, Swati Maliwal said that it is unfortunate that even in today바카라s time, India is called the 바카라rape capital of the world". She said it took her 10-day hunger strike in 2018 to get the government pass a law which made punishment for child rape stringent.
바카라The government assured me that within three months, police strength and police accountability across the country, as well as fast-track courts, would be increased,바카라 she said.
But, Swati Maliwal said, it has been one and a half year and the government has not fulfiled any promise.
Maliwal reiterated that there was a need of fast-track courts in cases related to rape. She said the current litigation process in rape cases is cumbersome for the rape victims.
바카라I am the DCW chief and with great responsibilityI want to say, 바카라few men rape a woman once and then it바카라s the system that rapes her,바카라바카라 Maliwal said.
Trans rights activist Laxmi Narayan Tripathi said access to justice is not available in the country because 바카라we are not taught what are our rights."
Speaking about the discrimination and the abuses the transgenders face, Laxmi said: "In my community, there are thousands of Nirbhayas. You can바카라t even imagine the way they are raped and killed, and they are not even considered as human beings."
바카라We are the last community in this country who got their rights as Indians, and still not even a fraction is being done yet," Laxmi said.
Former diplomat and IFS officer Deepa Gopalan Wadhwa said safety of women and the violence against women is a global issue. She said some of the women, who go out of India to work as domestic help, face brutalities.
바카라Women from small villages of India go abroad to work as domestic help in strange environments. And I have seen the cases where they were meted out with brutalities,바카라 she said.
