{"id":44841,"date":"2022-05-25T21:00:35","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T12:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/may\/25\/to-survive-i-must-appear-fearless-the-former-nun-helping-indias-garment-workers-fight-sexual-violence"},"modified":"2022-05-25T21:00:35","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T12:00:35","slug":"to-survive-i-must-appear-fearless-the-former-nun-helping-indias-garment-workers-fight-sexual-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44841","title":{"rendered":"\u2018To survive, I must appear fearless\u2019: the former nun helping India\u2019s garment workers fight sexual violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sexual harassment and assault are rife in the factories that supply some of the world\u2019s leading fashion brands. In Tamil Nadu, union leader Thiyva Rakini is trying to change that<\/p>\n<p>Many years ago, when Thivya Rakini was working as a domestic violence activist helping women to escape abusive husbands across the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, she took a pair of scissors and cut her long black hair back to the nape of her neck.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout my hair, I suddenly looked very frightening to a lot of people who couldn\u2019t believe a woman would cut away her femininity like that,\u201d she says. \u201cI was sending a signal that that those men shouldn\u2019t try to mess with me. Inside, I am really a very tender-hearted person but to survive I have learned that I must appear fearless.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/may\/25\/to-survive-i-must-appear-fearless-the-former-nun-helping-indias-garment-workers-fight-sexual-violence\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sexual harassment and assault are rife in the factories that supply some of the world\u2019s leading fashion brands. In Tamil Nadu, union leader Thiyva Rakini is trying to change thatMany years ago, when Thivya Rakini was working as a domestic violence acti&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":617,"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":[6,576,1453,62,79,61,1478,281,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-fashion","category-garment-workers","category-india","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-unions","category-women","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\/44841","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\/617"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44842,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44841\/revisions\/44842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}