Rape in India

In certain communities in South Asia, the low status of girls has to be compensated for by the payment of a dowry by the parents of the girl to the husband at the time of marriage. This has resulted in a number of dowry crimes, including mental and physical torture, starvation, rape, and even the burning alive of women by their husbands and/or in-laws in cases where dowry payments are not met.

Kainat and her family showed true bravery in this rape case. They went against tradition and stuck with their morals. There is still a strong stigma with rape. People will say the girl was asking for it, and that is not true. You cannot justify rape by blaming the victim for looking a certain way. I watch a documentary on Netflix called “India’s Daughter”, unfortunately, the young woman did not get to confront her perpetrators like Kainat because she was murdered after being raped. Women here are seen as confident, healthy, and powerful while women elsewhere are subjected to horrible conditions, they are repressed and discriminated against by their own neighbors. The men in this video prove that women’s lives don’t matter because if she acts

The biggest contributor of this phenomenon is the role of men. Often times, men are the ones that helped create how a women should act and be perceived. Consensus are altered to stand against the victims when such comments are made: “her skirt is too short; she has too much makeup; she should not go out at nine at night.” These comments make people wonder if those women actually deserve those treatments. In a banned Indian documentary “India’s Daughter”, a woman Jyoti Singh, a graduating medical school student, got raped by a group of guys, and was tortured to death by constantly stabbing a metal stick through her vagina into her intestines. In the documentary, one of the rapist, Mukesh Singh, was interviewed for his thoughts on the evil actions he had taken. He said: "When being raped, she shouldn’t fight back. She should just be silent and allow the rape. Then they’d have dropped her off after ‘doing her’, and only hit the boy." Later, he said that girls should be responsible for the rape. A good girl does not walk around in the dark, go to

Almost two-thirds of sexual assault is committed by someone known to the victim. Yet rape and sexual assault are one of the least reported crime in the united states with only 39% of attacks being reported to the police each year. Rape culture has been present throughout history in the entire world and sadly it continues to exist. Rape culture needs to be talked about more openly, so victims are not afraid to accuse their rapist or attacker. Communities should come together to create a culture of care and stop shaming men, women, and children into victim blaming. Educating society about what is right and wrong while offering victims support can potentially prevent rapes from occurring and putting the sick people who committed the crime into prison.

Rape culture extends across the globe. In 2012, a group of men gang-raped a young woman and assaulted her friend aboard a moving bus in New Delhi, India. The crime was horrific. And yet, there were some within the country who chose to blame the victims instead of the perpetrators. Asaram Bapu, a self-realized saint from India with approximately 40 million disciples said, “The victim’s daughter is as guilty as her rapists…She should have called the culprits brothers and begged before them to stop…This could have saved her dignity and life. Can you clap with one hand? I don’t think so” (Herald). Then in 1995, during the Bosnian War and the Bosnian genocide, the violence assumed a gender-targeted form through the use of rape. It is estimated that 50,000 women were raped. A year prior during the Rwandan genocide, known as the 100-day genocide, it is estimated that 500,000 women were raped. During the times when these genocides were taking place, rape and sexual violence was seen as just another part of war, but not seen as a crime. Thousands and thousands of women were raped and will never obtain the justice they deserve for their perpetrators’

While watching this film it truly opened my eye to the violence that occurs to females. I know this issue has been around, but never realized the severity of it until this film. My knowledge prior to watching is that women is not treated with the same respect as men. In society women are viewed as the weaker gender and violence towards them are usually swept under the rug and not seem as a big deal. I am aware that women usually do not report the issue because they are afraid. What was most surprising to me is that in third world countries violence such as rape, are not even considered to be serious. The higher authorities are aware that rape occurs, but usually do nothing about the situation. Men can simply get away with their acts because

Freda Adler once said, “Rape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused.” Women should not have to go thru so much pain and agony, and our voices should be heard and expressed throughout the countries. After watching India’s Daughter, a young college student that just wanted to live her dream to become something great, her life span was short lived due to 6 men raping her, by pulling her intestines out, and thrown off a moving bus.

Wartime rape is a topic that should have international attention and perpetrators should be held accountable. That should be obvious, however, that’s my opinion generated from growing up in a “first world” (developed, capitalist, with an industry based infrastructure) country, with work and education opportunities, predominately Christian ideology and with structured rules defining what’s illegal. Inhabitants of “third world” or developing countries have a significantly different environment and a low level of accountability to established governmental control. They face high levels of poverty, low economic development, and inadequate healthcare, prone to an unstable government, have high birth rates and lack a middle-class population.

Attention Getter: What is rape? By definition provided by Justice.gov, “Rape is the penetration, no matter how slight, by a sex organ of another person, without the consent of the victim.” A majority of rapes, go unreported for often times the offender is someone to victim knew. Transforming: A Rape Culture says that if the perpetrator was a spouse or lover seventy-five percent of the time the victimizations go unreported, seventy-one

It is six o’clock in the evening, a special news segment on world affairs is on the television. The journalist is doing a piece on inhumane practices that occur in third world countries, one of these travesties being rape. The voices of women who have been stolen from their homes and have been taken advantage of against their own will infiltrate the air. These personal stories have an incredulously powerful impact on those listening and make one think “How could such an outrageous thing happen?” Truth be told, these horrors are not just happening in far-off places, but they are happening right now in the United States of America. The very simple fact that one is oblivious to the magnitude of sexual violence in their very own country is an

In her article on the lack of justice for rape victims in Afghanistan, Noorjahan Akbar says that Afghani society is “a society in which being raped is a bigger shame that raping. Rape will not vanish until we have combated the culture of rape, which treats women only worthy for their virginity or because they are the honor and property of the men in the family.” This is very likely the underlying cause of most of the

Furthermore, we do see gendercide occurring few years after a baby girl is born. In some places, female infanticide is frequently occurring in the early years of the unwanted child. In regions of India, a fair amount of girl does not live past puberty because of child abuse and neglecting. There is also an imbalance in infant mortality rate of boys and girls.

Before the emergence of the Westernized “anti-rape” movement, there was a distinctly rape supportive discourse in our society, supported by myths and justifications for the act of raping another human being. The resulting trauma for the victims of rape was greatly ignored as society

We need to change those statistics. Rape isn’t right and people need to understand that. It makes me angry that rape victims are left depressed, wanting to die or suffer from a mental illness such as PTSD while the perpetrator is fine and is able to walk about the world feeling little to no shame. What makes these people think it’s okay to do this to another person without consent? 17,342 pregnancies are caused by rape. Keep in mind these are the pregnancies that actually happen while the other pregnancies result in abortion. The ladies who were pregnant and had to go through abortion or actually going through with the pregnancy have so much strength and they went through things they didn’t deserve to go through. It’s not right and we as a united society need to help one another out. We need to understand the dangers of rape to help end it. Rape reports need to be taken seriously and needs to be thoroughly evaluated to show victims that they are respected and brave for being able to go and do the things they did. Their reports could help put a lot of bad people off the streets, so respect them for their courage instead of pushing them away. Don’t ever tell a person that their rape could have been prevented and it was their fault because unless you’ve been in the same situation as them, you have no right to tell them what they could’ve or should’ve done. Be respectful so they

Female infanticide has been accepted for centuries in many countries, and is more prominent in India and China than in any other countries around the world. It is illegal in India, however it is reported by Unicef that up to 50 million girls and women are “missing” in India as a result of systemic sex discrimination.