{"id":32999,"date":"2021-06-11T14:00:10","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T05:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/jun\/11\/students-and-puts-indias-sexual-violence-under-spotlight-again"},"modified":"2021-06-11T14:00:10","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T05:00:10","slug":"students-rape-and-murder-puts-indias-sexual-violence-under-spotlight-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32999","title":{"rendered":"Student\u2019s rape and murder puts India\u2019s sexual violence under spotlight again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite new laws to combat the problem, a rape is reported every 15 minutes, leaving victims and families crying out for justice<\/p>\n<p>It was a historic day for women in India. Mamata Banerjee and her party won a spectacular election victory in West Bengal, defeating the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) of the prime minister, Narendra Modi, defying many predictions. Securing a third term as chief minister, she was the only woman in such an important position in India.<\/p>\n<p>The following day, 3 May, while TV anchors debated how Banerjee\u2019s win represented not only a strong force against Modi but also made her a powerful woman in a patriarchal country, a 20-year-old student, known only as Jana (her identity cannot be revealed under Indian law), was cornered by two men in a village, about 70 miles west of Kolkata, West Bengal\u2019s main city.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/jun\/11\/students-and-puts-indias-sexual-violence-under-spotlight-again\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite new laws to combat the problem, a rape is reported every 15 minutes, leaving victims and families crying out for justiceIt was a historic day for women in India. Mamata Banerjee and her party won a spectacular election victory in West Bengal, d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2248,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[59,62,86,433,242,440,79,61,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-development","category-india","category-law","category-narendra-modi","category-rape-and-sexual-assault","category-sexual-violence","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-womens-rights-and-gender-equality","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2248"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33000,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32999\/revisions\/33000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}