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‘I’ll put those monsters behind bars’: India’s law school for rape survivors
Women who were forced into sex work are helped to seek justice by a unique scheme that trains them as lawyers
Saira* wants to become a lawyer so she can put her rapists in jail. “I want to fight my own case and put those monsters behind bars,” says the 31-year-old from West Bengal.
She may achieve her objective. In June, after three years of study, Saira will become the first student to graduate from a unique programme that offers survivors of sexual exploitation the chance to enrol in fully funded law courses.
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