Delhi Is Using Technology And All-Female Police Force

 

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Last week saw the release of India’s Daughter, a revealing (and, frankly, horrifying) documentary about the 2012 gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old medical student on a Delhi bus. The film has brought the problem of women’s safety in India to the fore once again.

The film brutally illustrated how unsafe the women of Delhi actually are on public transport, especially at night. According to a poll conducted by the Thomson Reuters Foundation last October, the city’s transport system is the fourth worst of the 16 largest world capitals when it comes to women’s safety on public transit.

It also highlighted the extent to which the problem stems from social values. Something the men charged with the attack and their defence lawyers had in common, despite their drastically different situations and backgrounds, was the belief that the attack was justified because the woman was unmarried and travelling alone with a man at night. – READ MORE

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