{"id":57002,"date":"2023-07-27T14:00:27","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T05:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/jul\/27\/mumbai-student-sexual-assault-murder-shows-womens-safety-india-still-not-priority"},"modified":"2023-07-27T14:00:27","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T05:00:27","slug":"students-sexual-assault-and-murder-shows-womens-safety-in-india-not-a-priority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57002","title":{"rendered":"Student\u2019s sexual assault and murder shows women\u2019s safety in India \u2018not a priority\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite reforms, campaigners say Mumbai killing proves lack of progress in protecting students since 2012 \u2018Nirbhaya\u2019 gang-rape<\/p>\n<p>The list of complaints made by female students living at the women\u2019s hostel in the south of Mumbai is depressingly long and goes back years. The women were regularly harassed by male staff, by the drug addicts who hung around outside and other men who made crude gestures. But whenever the women complained, they were threatened with eviction or simply ignored.<\/p>\n<p>It makes what happened to Rani*, a second-year computer science student at a higher education college in the west Indian city, feel inevitable.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/jul\/27\/mumbai-student-sexual-assault-murder-shows-womens-safety-india-still-not-priority\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite reforms, campaigners say Mumbai killing proves lack of progress in protecting students since 2012 \u2018Nirbhaya\u2019 gang-rapeThe list of complaints made by female students living at the women\u2019s hostel in the south of Mumbai is depressingly long and go&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1403,"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":[353,59,860,53,62,86,454,242,440,79,61,2410,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-delhi","category-global-development","category-global-education","category-human-rights","category-india","category-law","category-mumbai","category-rape-and-sexual-assault","category-sexual-violence","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-violence-against-women-and-girls","category-womens-rights-and-gender-equality","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57002","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\/1403"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57003,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57002\/revisions\/57003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}