Fight gender-based violence at the roots
Hindustan TimesThe recently launched month-long campaign against gender-based violence, led by Union rural development and agriculture and farmers welfare minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan with support from various government departments, is perhaps the first time a serious whole-of-government approach has been adopted to this persistent problem. At the roundtable, Sanya Seth, country programme manager, UN Women, said, “Poverty and lack of access to resources add to the structural barriers women face, which has complicated the issue.” Harish Sadani of Men Against Violence and Abuse said, “Men are not the enemy, the mindset is. A counter-narrative must be built.” According to the latest National Crime Records Bureau report, a crime against women is reported in India every three minutes, two women are raped every 60 minutes, and a young married woman is found beaten to death or burnt every six hours. Jahnvi Andharia of ISST said that, for most working women in the informal sector, the experience of violence cannot be divided into neat categories of “domestic” or “workplace” violence.
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