{"id":61610,"date":"2024-02-02T15:00:40","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T06:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2024\/feb\/02\/womens-champion-swati-maliwal-takes-delhi-anti-rape-fight-nationwide"},"modified":"2024-02-02T15:00:40","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T06:00:40","slug":"womens-champion-swati-maliwal-takes-delhi-anti-rape-fight-nationwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61610","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s champion Swati Maliwal takes Delhi anti-rape fight nationwide"},"content":{"rendered":"

The campaigner has faced death threats and gone on hunger strike to change laws and bring rapists to justice. She has no plans to stop there<\/p>\n

Once upon a time, Delhi\u2019s Commission for Women was regarded as a toothless, comatose body that few took seriously. Until Swati Maliwal took charge. She made it a campaigning powerhouse that challenged police policy, altered legislation and helped bring thousands more sexual assault cases to court andrapists to justice.<\/p>\n

During her two terms in office, Maliwal, 39, went on hunger strike<\/a> to demand police action against sexual harassment and rape, which resulted in the government increasing sentencing. She walked Delhi\u2019s streets at 3am to experience how a woman feels out alone; and went on police brothel raids, which led to the release of women and girls<\/a>, who were given vocational training. She also issued a summons against the Delhi police commissioner when he refused to share data on crime rates.<\/p>\n

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The campaigner has faced death threats and gone on hunger strike to change laws and bring rapists to justice. She has no plans to stop thereOnce upon a time, Delhi\u2019s Commission for Women was regarded as a toothless, comatose body that few took seriousl…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":589,"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":[353,59,62,242,440,61,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-delhi","category-global-development","category-india","category-rape-and-sexual-assault","category-sexual-violence","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\/61610","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\/589"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61611,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61610\/revisions\/61611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}