WSJ and HarperCollins co-publish ‘Crimes Against Women’
• A series of recommendations that would alter this picture, which includes the need for politicians, civil society groups and law-enforcement authorities to face the problem rather than downplaying it, and for every Indian family to look inward at how women are treated in the home;
• Two accompanying in-depth narratives that go far beyond the Delhi rape case in showing how women can easily be exploited and abused in a country where, in theory and before the law, men and women have equal rights. One probes the 2011 murder of a Catholic nun who was opposed to the expansion of mining in a tribal district. The other follows the Dickensian tale of a young woman duped into leaving her village with three young children and the dire consequences that result;
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