{"id":6653,"date":"2019-08-09T02:55:37","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T17:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/08\/india-government-fails-to-act-on-violence-against-women-and-girls"},"modified":"2019-08-09T02:55:37","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T17:55:37","slug":"indias-government-fails-to-act-on-violence-against-women-and-girls-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=6653","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s government fails to act on violence against women and girls | Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>42 female academics and activists on a teenage rape survivor\u2019s struggle for justice<\/p>\n<p>As a teenage rape survivor demanding justice battles for her life (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/01\/india-ruling-party-bjp-expels-politician-rape-kuldeep-singh-sengar\" title=\"\">Politician accused of rape expelled from BJP<\/a>, 1 August), we are shocked and outraged at the Indian government\u2019s approach to violence against women and girls and its shielding of alleged perpetrators, particularly those who are leaders or close associates of the ruling BJP. Nothing has been learned from the brutal gang-rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in Kashmir in 2017, following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/india\/story\/kathua-rape-case-2-bjp-ministers-attend-rally-in-support-of-accused-1181788-2018-03-04\" title=\"\">which BJP ministers addressed protest marches in support of the rape-accused<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This time the alleged perpetrator is a BJP member of the legislative assembly from Uttar Pradesh, Kuldeep Singh Sengar, who has denied the charge.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/08\/india-government-fails-to-act-on-violence-against-women-and-girls\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>42 female academics and activists on a teenage rape survivor\u2019s struggle for justiceAs a teenage rape survivor demanding justice battles for her life (Politician accused of rape expelled from BJP, 1 August), we are shocked and outraged at the Indian gov&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"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":[62,242,79,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-rape-and-sexual-assault","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","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\/6653","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\/269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6654,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6653\/revisions\/6654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}