Mistreatment of women in India

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Sexual assaults on foreigners threaten Indian tourism - Times Online
Jeremy Page of The Times, in Delhi

India's reputation as a safe and easygoing tourist destination has been dented by a string of alleged rapes and sexual assaults on foreigners in the past week, including at least four of them British women.

The Indian Government has called tourism officials from its 28 states to a meeting in Delhi next week to review security measures for the five million foreigners expected to visit this year.

The meeting was announced as police confirmed today that medical tests had shown that a 32-year-old British woman was raped on Friday night in Goa, one of India's most popular tourist sites.

The woman told Goan police that her assailant offered her a lift home on his motorcycle after she had attended a concert in the city of Mapusa in north Goa.

Two more British women have told Goan police that they were sexually assaulted by the owner of a resort in the former Portuguese enclave - although a case has yet to be registered against him.

Also last week, a Russian woman reported being attacked by a beach café owner in south Goa and a Finnish woman alleged that she was threatened with rape by two local men at another seafront eatery.

The reported assaults highlight the dangers of travelling alone as a woman in India, where Westerners are widely regarded as promiscuous, and sexual harrassment in public places is routine. The alleged attacks are particularly damaging to Goa, which has earned a reputation as one of India's most tolerant and cosmopolitan tourist sites since becoming popular with Western hippies in the 1960s.

The lastest government statistics show that there were 19,348 rape cases reported in India in 2006, compared with 15,847 in 2005 — an increase of 22 per cent.

Goan authorities have vowed to crack Friday's rape case within two days, to deploy extra police to improve security for tourists, and to adopt “zero tolerance” towards sexual assault.

“Certainly I would say that it's bad, but to say that it is setting a trend - no,” said Kishen Kumar, Goa's Inspector General of Police. “By and large, Goa is a very peaceful place. By and large tourists feel very safe.”

Local officials say that the problem is caused partly by the rapid increase in the number of foreigners visiting Goa, whose beaches attracted 2.2 million tourists last year. The problem is made worse by foreigners' disregard for local mores and by Goa's reputation for hedonistic beach parties, fuelled by drugs and alcohol.

Other popular tourist area in India have registered similar cases in the past year. A British freelance journalist reported that she was raped by the owner of a guesthouse in Udaipur, home of the Lake Palace, in Rajasthan, two weeks ago.

An American woman alleged that she was molested at a temple in Pushkar, also in Rajasthan, last week. Two teenage girls from Canada reported being sexually assaulted by a security guard at a hotel in the southwestern state of Kerala last week.

In September, two Japanese women were allegedly gang-raped in Agra, site of the Taj Mahal, while in June, a South Korean tourist said she had been raped near Manali, a hill station in Himachal Pradesh.
The Government is so concerned that the assaults could undermine its Incredible India! advertising campaign that it has summoned state tourism ministers to a meeting in Delhi on January 24.
S. Banerjee, the Tourism Secretary, has reminded all the participants of a commitment last year to deploy tourist police at all important sites. Only ten states have complied so far.

 

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Number of rape cases rising in India

I found some very interesting statistics that definately contributed to the alarming rising numbers of female tourist raping, rape cases recorded a rapid rise during the past five years in India;

New Delhi, July 29 (IANS) India has recorded a rise in the number of rape cases during the past five years with states like Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal accounting for a large number of them, parliament was informed Wednesday.

According to the data compiled by the National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB), a total of 20,737 rape cases were registered in 2007 against 19,384 in 2006, while the figure was 18,359 in 2005 and 18,233 in 2004 against 15,847 in 2003.

The data tabled in parliament pointed out that the maximum number of cases were registered in Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal.

Madhya Pradesh had 3,010 rape cases in 2007 against 2,900 in 2006. West Bengal accounted for 2,106 rape cases in 2007 against 1,731 in 2006.

While the number of such crimes was on the rise in almost all states, Delhi has witnessed a reverse trend in the past two years. A total of 658 cases were registered in 2005 while in 2006 the numbers stood at 623, coming down further to 598 in 2007.

 

[notsuperstitious]

Yeah right, dignity ? do you got this word in Indian's dictionary ?

May be dignity for raping tourist= National pride ?

Truth hurt ? if you can't handle the truth, cry me a river, see if i give

a damn.

Chu, the truth is this

According to World Travel and Tourism Council, India will be a tourism hotspot from 2009-2018,[3] having the highest 10-year growth potential.[4] The Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Report 2007 ranked tourism in India 6th in terms of price competitiveness and 39th in terms of safety and security.[5] Despite short- and medium-term setbacks, such as shortage of hotel rooms,[6] tourism revenues are expected to surge by 42% from 2007 to 2017.

And all your 50 cent posts don't change that

 

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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/21/international/asia/21china.html

XINJI, China - The teacher always sent a girl to buy his cigarettes. He left the class unsupervised and waited in his office. When the girl returned to class with flushed cheeks and tousled hair, the other students said nothing.

For nearly three months the teacher, Li Guang, raped 26 fourth- and fifth-grade girls in this rural village, parents and court officials say. Some girls were raped more than once as Mr. Li attacked them in a daily rotation. He was found out when a 14year-old refused to go to school for fear that the next morning would be her "turn." She did not want to be raped a third time.

"School is where our children learn," said Cheng Junyin, the mother of the 14-year-old. "We thought it was the safest place for them."

It is the sort of horrific case that in many countries would be a national scandal but in China has disappeared into the muffled silence of state censorship. That silence matches the silence at the heart of the case: the fact that students considered a teacher so powerful that they did not dare speak out.

Indeed, even as the conventions of Chinese society are being shaken by the tumult of modernization, the Confucian reverence of teachers remains strong, particularly in isolated areas like this farming village in Gansu Province in western China. Parents grant teachers carte blanche, some even condoning beatings, while students are trained to honor and obey teachers, never challenge them.

"The absolute authority of teachers in schools is one of the cultural reasons that teachers are so fearless in doing what they want," said Yang Dongping, a leading expert on China's education system.

Yet modernization has helped drive many teachers away from the poorest areas like Gansu. Low pay in rural areas and better opportunities in cities have caused teacher shortages in many poor areas. One study found that 35 percent of village teachers leave within three years.

Poorer schools are left to hire cheaper teachers, many of them only marginally qualified, a trend that has coincided with a string of sexual abuse cases. Mr. Yang believes that rapes are rare, far less common than beatings, but he noted that in 2003 the Education Ministry published a list of 10 cases in which teachers had raped students.

In December 2003 a teacher in rural Shaanxi Province was executed for raping 58 girls in 15 years. Last October a teenage girl in rural central China tried to commit suicide after a teacher forced her to watch him rape her cousin.

Mr. Li, 28, may go on trial by the end of June, according to a court official in Dingxi, the city where the case will be heard. If he is convicted he will face a prison term of at least 10 years, or possibly the death penalty.

Local education officials as well as prosecutors refused to be interviewed about the case, other than to confirm that the trial would be forthcoming. China's state-controlled news media have remained silent, except for a short initial newspaper article that reported Mr. Li's arrest.

But a visit to this village found families who vented their anger at such a violation of trust. The village is nearly six hours from the provincial capital, Lanzhou, the last three hours on a dirt road through the mountains. The hilltop ruins of old fortifications are reminders that clans once ruled this remote land. .

Farming is the primary livelihood, although it provides only subsistence for some families, who often delay sending a child to school to avoid the fees. Girls are usually the first to be kept home, and some do not start school until age 9 or 10. Mr. Li's fourth-grade class had about 50 pupils, of whom about 26 were girls, with ages ranging from 10 to 14. In all, the school has more than 900 students, drawn from nearby villages.

Zhang Shengxia, at 10, was one of the youngest girls in Mr. Li's fourth-grade class and, as it happened, one of the luckiest. She said the rapes began last fall as the teacher selected girls, one after the other. The girls talked to one another about what was happening but did not dare tell

Inside the classroom, Shengxia said, Mr. Li would sometimes physically abuse male and female students by ordering them to pile atop one another on his desk. "Even then," she said, "we were afraid to cry."

As the weeks wore on, Mr. Li either sent girls out for cigarettes or simply called them to his office every day. "When the teacher would ask a student, they would try to run away or yell out," Shengxia recalled. On the day he called out her name, she said, "He told me, 'Don't listen to all the bad things the other students say about me.' " He sent her outside for cigarettes, and she sprinted from school to her home. She was never raped.

"I was scared," she said. "I hate him."

"I hate the school," said Zheng Gaiguo, 40, the mother of a girl in the fifth-grade class. Her daughter is 14 and was raped once. "The teacher took my daughter to the office and told her: 'Do not be afraid. Your mother and your father are doing this.' "

The rapes lasted for almost three months, until the morning that Cheng Junyin's 14-year-old daughter refused to go to school. Word began to spread through the village, and other mothers began to hear horrible stories. Jiao Zhencai, 35, said her 12-year-old had been raped twice. Yet she said the girls had been too frightened to confront the teacher. Instead, Ms. Jiao said, some of the girls would share tips on how to escape from the teacher's office by picking the lock.

The precise details of Mr. Li's background remain uncertain. He grew up in Xinji and took his first teaching job in the village of Qingpu, a few hours away. He later returned to his hometown for a job at the local primary school. Villagers say his cousin worked as director of instruction, a connection they say was essential in helping him land the job.

"Anybody who has connections in the government can become a teacher, whether they go to college or just some vocational school," said Tian Ziming, 40, an uncle of the young girl, Shengxia, who was not raped. "It is not difficult to get a certificate."

The authorities will not release information about Mr. Li, but some villagers say he is also being investigated for possible rapes at his school in Qingpu. Nine other teachers were removed from the village school here, including Mr. Li's cousin and the headmaster. No explanation was given as to why so many teachers were removed.

In the conservative culture of rural China, the shame of rape has been devastating for many families. Some have refused to talk to prosecutors or get involved in the case. Others fear that their daughters will be forever damaged, not the least when they reach marrying age and may be stigmatized.

Ms. Jiao, the mother whose daughter was raped twice, may have the most difficult time forgetting what has happened. Her neighbors are Mr. Li's parents. She said they had gone to her home after their son had been arrested and warned her not to talk about the case.

"His parents came here and asked me, 'How many people know about this?' " Ms. Jiao. "I said, 'All the kids in school know about this.' "

She said she then told them: "Everybody has children. What if this had happened to you?"

 

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Number of rape cases rising in India

I found some very interesting statistics that definately contributed to the alarming rising numbers of female tourist raping, rape cases recorded a rapid rise during the past five years in India;

New Delhi, July 29 (IANS) India has recorded a rise in the number of rape cases during the past five years with states like Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal accounting for a large number of them, parliament was informed Wednesday.

According to the data compiled by the National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB), a total of 20,737 rape cases were registered in 2007 against 19,384 in 2006, while the figure was 18,359 in 2005 and 18,233 in 2004 against 15,847 in 2003.

The data tabled in parliament pointed out that the maximum number of cases were registered in Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal.

Madhya Pradesh had 3,010 rape cases in 2007 against 2,900 in 2006. West Bengal accounted for 2,106 rape cases in 2007 against 1,731 in 2006.

While the number of such crimes was on the rise in almost all states, Delhi has witnessed a reverse trend in the past two years. A total of 658 cases were registered in 2005 while in 2006 the numbers stood at 623, coming down further to 598 in 2007.

Chairman Mao proclaimed that "women hold up half the sky" and the Party-led state claims to have liberated women. Nonetheless women still generally face a double standard when it comes to rape.

Statistics for rape cases are hard to quantify worldwide, and China is no exception. The U.S. Department of State reported 31,833 rapes in China in 2007, though the Chinese government has not released official statistics for that year. In 2005, the last year for which official Chinese statistics are available, the official number was merely 15,000.

"Only one out of ten cases happened is likely to be reported," said Luo Tsun-yin, a social psychologist at Shih Hsin University in Taiwan, and some estimate that the ratio is even greater. Even if a case is reported, the woman may be pressured by the authorities, her family or the attacker himself to recant.

The majority of these crimes are committed by someone the victim knows. "In the idea of the ‘rape myth,' the victim and rapist are said to be strangers, but what we saw from real-life cases were mostly acquaintances," said Zhang Qi, whose graduate research at the Chinese Academy of the Social Sciences centered on media reports of rape. Her MA thesis looked at hundreds of Chinese legal newspaper reports of rape cases in 2004, finding the following data, below.*


Traditional Chinese culture often holds that the woman bears responsibility for an act of rape. This can be seen in many areas of the world which share China's cultural tradition.

"We don't see a lot of research in this field in mainland China," Luo said. "In this aspect, we need to compare all the research from different regions, including mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and even Singapore, which are all Chinese communities… Although we have different political and economic systems, the cultural views are similar."

While the topic is troubling worldwide, it is particularly taboo within Chinese culture. An old saying notes that "to die of hunger is a small matter, but to lose your chastity is a huge matter," and still resonates in contemporary culture. Traditional gender stereotypes see males as possessing a sexual drive that the desire-free women must resist. In this view, if a woman is raped, she must have brought it upon herself.

"A woman may be viewed that she should be responsible for being raped because she aspired to date or go to a man's premises; or that she took the risk of being raped as she went out alone late at night or drank alcohol; or that she enticed others to rape her with her behavior or dressing," said Linda Wong, Executive Director of the Association Concerning Sexual Violence Against Women in Hong Kong.

The perception that a raped woman is dirty or ruined further compounds the stigma, even within a woman's own family. Luo studied one case in which after a girl was raped, "her family wouldn't put her clothes together into the washing machine when they washed the clothes. They divided them from the other family members, because they thought she was dirty."

Wong believes that these attitudes point to a larger inequality in Chinese culture. "Violence against women is rooted in patriarchal gender relations where women are assigned roles based not on their capacity but norms and values that perpetuate male dominance and superiority," she said. "The gender inequality is embedded in all levels of the society such as employment, education and social status."

The lack of well-rounded sex education doesn't help matters. On the Chinese mainland as well as on Taiwan, sex education is largely cursory and focused on the biological aspects as opposed to the social. "Taiwan does not have much sex education," Luo said. "So students turn to pornographic material. They implant a lot of wrong information in them, such as ‘no means yes' and ‘all girls want sex.'"

The laws pertaining to rape, while not blind to the crime, largely follow cultural perceptions. For example, the definition of "rape" is quite narrow. "Only women can be victims in China—males cannot be counted as victims," Zhang said.

These laws haven't seen change in a decade or so. "The Criminal Law in China was issued in 1979, and revised in 1997… to combine the crime of fornication with an underage girl into the crime of rape," Zhang said. "Some judicial interpretations took place during 2003 and 2004. No news was heard from modification of laws since then." Sentences for rape range from three years in prison to a death sentence, though there are loopholes to the latter.

"The punishment can be a death penalty with a two-year reprieve and forced labor, which in Chinese law means a sentence can be adjusted depending on the performance of the criminal during the two-year period," Zhang said. "In recent years, there has been a decline in the use of the death penalty, so rapists are mostly given a death penalty with a two-year reprieve and forced labor."

But there is evidence that things are changing. Several domestic and international groups, including government-sponsored ones such as the All-China Women's Federation, are pushing for societal and legal change.

"There have been a number of government initiatives, and there is a very strong movement from the [All-China] Women's Federation to try and press for more resources for women who are the victims of sexual assault or rape," said Sara Davis, the executive director of AsiaCatalyst, a nonprofit organization that assists NGO startups in Asia.

There are several centers where women can receive emergency care and support as well. Many major cities have crisis hotlines, and crisis centers provide counseling and resources to assist victims. Other organizations, including the Federation mentioned above, seek to address a variety of women's issues in China.

The outrage surrounding high-profile cases may also lead to growing awareness of the issue. Early last April, a case involving five "girl hunters," men who waited outside schools for potential victims, went to trial and awaits a verdict. Four government officials, a school teacher, and a taxi driver were charged with raping several young girls and forcing them into prostitution gangs. Last year, riots protested a cover-up by Guizhou police when they declared a girl's death a suicide when in fact she had been raped and murdered.

But despite the legal changes and the growing number of resources available to victims, many agree that social change is most needed.

"The progress in culture and society may not have caught up with the progress in legislation," Luo said.

Wong agreed. "The support services such as psychological counseling, medical, health and legal services are indeed necessary, but these address practical rather than strategic gender needs. They will not put women in greater control of themselves in their own context. They will not change attitudes, behaviors and power structures," she said.

But all remain hopeful for the future.

"We're seeing a lot of changes in China right now, in terms of growing awareness of human rights and rule of law… it's true that it's a very patriarchal society and that women's rights are not taken very seriously, but that can also change pretty quickly," Davis said. "Cultures are very powerful but they are not immutable. Cultures change all the time."

 

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BBC NEWS | South Asia | Goa assault highlights India rape concernsBy Chris Morris BBC News, Goa

Tourism is the mainstay of Goan economy

"I was abducted by a stranger and taken to an isolated place. And my attacker said he wanted to kill me."

These are the words of a British woman who we are calling Sarah - it is not her real name. Earlier this month, in Goa where she lives, she was raped after accepting a lift on a motorbike.

She is just one victim among thousands. The numbers are horrifying. On average across India there are 53 rapes a day, and recently released government statistics suggest that it is the fastest growing crime in the country.

Now, a series of attacks on women tourists, and a string of serious sexual assaults caught on camera, have pushed this often hidden issue into the spotlight.

Very violent'

"In hindsight it was probably premeditated," says Sarah, referring to the night she was raped. "And when I returned to the scene and saw where he'd taken me, it frightened me even more."

"Not only was my ordeal very violent - and this man should be caught because of that - but one of the reasons I decided to speak out is that I know a lot of Goan women can't speak out so easily."

That is because the vast majority of women subjected to sex attacks in India are poor, low-caste and powerless. As a foreigner Sarah is relatively well off, and she is white.

But in places like Goa that can make you more vulnerable in other ways. At times, says Sarah, there is an obsession with white skin.

Goa is famous for its pristine beaches

"I'm not a typical tourist. But would it be less shocking if I'd been dancing at a full moon party on one of the tourist beaches half dressed? In that sense is there an inevitability about it? No.

"And I do take some responsibility of course - I got on a stranger's bike at 1045 at night. But you're lulled into a false sense of security."

"I was at a very sober concert, well-to-do people everywhere, it was fully lit and it's quite normal to get on taxi bikes here. I only wanted a 10-minute lift to a rickshaw stand actually. And it was only once I was on board that the plan changed."

After the publicity generated by the recent attacks on foreign women, the Indian government has plans to deploy thousands of retired defence personnel as an unofficial protection force at popular tourist destinations.

Up to five million foreign tourists visit India every year, and in places like Goa tourism is the mainstay of the local economy. So there is real concern about safety.

But are sex crimes really becoming more common, or are they now being reported more widely?

 

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Fateh71:

Personal attacks won't be tolerated. Any more of that and you're out of here.

 

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Hindustan Times: Shame: Rape is India's fastest growing crime

RAPE IS the fastest growing crime in the country, shows government data, even as reports of sexual crimes, including those against foreign tourists, continue to pour in from across India.

The latest statistics, pertaining to 2006, released by the Home Ministry's National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) recently, show that every hour 18 women become victims of crime. The number of rapes a day has increased nearly 700 per cent since 1971 -

when the NCRB started recording such cases. It has grown from seven cases a day to 53. It was 5.5 per cent more than the number of rape cases registered in 2005. In comparison, all other crimes have grown by 300 per cent since 1953, when the NCRB started keeping records.

And these are just the cases that have been reported; the number of unreport- ed cases is far higher. There have been at least a dozen cases of molestation and rape of foreign tourists so far in 2008. The latest was reported on Saturday - a British woman alleged she was raped in Panaji (see more cases in box). Worried over the sexual assaults on tourists, which has the potential to damage the tourism industry and the country's image

 

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InfoChange India News & Features development news India - Rape fastest growing crime in India

According to recent National Crime Records Bureau statistics, a rape is being reported every 30 minutes in India, an alarming increase of nearly 700% since 1971 when the NCRB started keeping records

Rape is the fastest growing crime in the country, according to data for 2006 released by the home ministry's National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) recently. A rape is being reported every 30 minutes, an alarming increase of nearly 700% since 1971 when the NCRB started recording them.

These figures are revealed even as reports of sexual crimes, including those against foreign tourists, come in from different parts of the country, and a concerned Centre convened a high-level meeting with state governments in New Delhi on January 24 to review safety and security measures for women.

Every hour, 18 women become victims of crime directed specifically at them -- rape, kidnapping and abduction, dowry-related crimes, molestation, sexual harassment, eve-teasing, etc. Rape has grown from seven cases a day in 1971 to 53 in 2006. In comparison, all other crimes have grown by 300% since 1953 when the NCRB started keeping records.

What is alarming is that the offenders were known to their victims in 75.1% of rape cases (14,536 out of 19,348). Parents/close family members were involved in 3% of cases (431 out of 14,536), neighbours in 36.8% of cases (5,351 out of 14,536) and relatives in 7.6% of cases (1,106 out of 14,536).

According to the NCRB data, among 35 cities with a population of over 1 million, Delhi topped the list of crimes against women, with 4,134 cases (nearly one-fifth of the total number of crimes against women). One-third of all rapes and a fifth of molestation cases took place in the city. Hyderabad was the second most dangerous city for women, with 1,755 cases.

Among the states, Andhra Pradesh recorded the highest number of crimes against women -- 21,484 cases, or 13% of the total number of cases in 2006. Uttar Pradesh was a close second, with 9.9% of such crimes. Madhya Pradesh reported the highest number of rape cases, at 2,900, and also molestation cases.

Records reveal that 7,618 women were killed for dowry in 2006, an increase of 12.2% over 2005. Uttar Pradesh, with 1,798 cases, had the highest number of such deaths, followed by Bihar with 1,188 cases.

And these are just the cases that have been reported; the number of unreported cases may be much higher.

Several women have been raped and sexually attacked this month in Goa, Kerala and Rajasthan -- three of the most visited places in India . In the latest incident, a British woman reported that she had been raped in the beach resort of Goa .

In another incident, a British woman and an American woman complained of similar attacks in the desert state of Rajasthan last week, while in Kumarakom, in Kerala, two minor Canadian girls on holiday were molested by a security guard at a hotel.

“We are adopting zero tolerance towards the accused. We are dealing seriously with these cases,” Goa 's Chief Minister Digamber Kamat said in Panaji. The Kerala state government also said it would intensify police patrols after two sexual assaults this month.

These incidents have raised serious concern among the country's tourism ministry that is apprehensive that its high-profile ‘Incredible India' campaign abroad will be adversely affected by the bad publicity. Several prominent countries, including the US, UK, Australia, Canada and France have issued warnings in travel advisories specifically for women tourists about the possibility of physical harassment and molestation in major tourism destinations like Delhi, Agra, Goa and Himachal Pradesh.

According to official sources, Union Tourism Secretary S Banerjee has written to the tourism secretaries of all states in the wake of the recent media reports, reminding them that the ministry had asked them to deploy special police at popular tourist sites. Only 10 states have acted on the recommendation so far.

The tourism secretaries of various states are to meet Tourism Minister Ambika Soni and other senior officials in New Delhi on January 24 to try and identify measures that can be taken to provide better protection to foreign visitors, apart from reviewing the effectiveness of the existing ones, said official sources.

 

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lol

Here's a piece of advice for you, if you have not heard of something, then going by the quality of your posts, it probably exists. Keep an open mind instead of talking though your hat all the while. Accept that you don't know much and be humble

Rapes (per capita) by country. Definition, graph and map.

And rape rate can ONLY be compared per capita to know how 'safe' a place is otherwise in pure numbers how will you compare rape numbers in china with rape numbers of maldives given the respective sizes of the two nations? Read that slowly and you will get it. This is n e w info, process slowly.

lol and don't forget to wear your chastity belt lol

So according to this report most safest countries on the earth for women are MUSLIM COUNTRIES...........

and yet enemies of Islam depict it otherwise. dwelling on one case in Pakistan proves the complacency of world media.

 

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Wow ...Pis Drink is more popular in China and Pakistan than anywhere in India .....sure we do need o think of packaging and exporting this ...to make more money.....


Whatever RSS is doing is inside India ...and they are not coming anfd killing people in China or PAkistan....and China and Pakistan have nothing to do with it.....Pakistanis first need to manage Pakistan and then throw crap on India .......we re not the ones pounding ..our own country to kill ....people who we created...to satisfy our whims and fancies.........so now tell me ...who is a major jihadi churning organization.

Hay shapard, Learn the truth than talk.

There are world foerces working to destablize Pakistan and India is willing partner to it, come down from ur high horse, and stop blaming others.

proof is the willing ness to bring Israelis to Kashmir, willingnes to blame pakistan for attacks on mombay when it is done by Kashmiri groups fighting for freedom from oppression by India. And the list goes on.

 

[asq]

Chu, the truth is this

According to World Travel and Tourism Council, India will be a tourism hotspot from 2009-2018,[3] having the highest 10-year growth potential.[4] The Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Report 2007 ranked tourism in India 6th in terms of price competitiveness and 39th in terms of safety and security.[5] Despite short- and medium-term setbacks, such as shortage of hotel rooms,[6] tourism revenues are expected to surge by 42% from 2007 to 2017.

And all your 50 cent posts don't change that

Awarness to tourists will make a change, truth will than change the very ugly thing that goes on and is the right thing to do as is the case by my firends such as GB. and Khalidi.

 

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Newest tourist rape case updated, a nine years old victim from Russia

9-Year-old Raped in Goa | Russian Girl | Indian Tourist | Arambol Beach - Oneindia News
Wednesday, January 27, 2010,14:30 [IST]

Panaji, Jan 27: In a shocking incident, a nine-year-old Russian girl was allegedly raped by an Indian tourist in Arambol beach here.

Buzz up!The girl's mother filed a compliant at the Pernem police station on Tuesday evening, Jan 26.

Police inspector Uttam Rautdessai said, "The girl was bathing in the sea when a person started abusing her. The girl started crying and rushed to her mother, who was on a beach bed."

He further said, "She told her that the man, who we suspect is a tourist named Aman, had inserted his finger inside her."

The girl was later sent for medical examination to a government hospital in Panaji, which confirmed penetration.

The accused fled the scene when the girl complained to her mother.

Crimes against foreigners, especially Russians, have increased in Goa.

Earlier, a 25-year-old Russian woman was raped by a Goan politician in Dec 2009.

 

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Goa tourism minister slams CM over rape .:. newkerala.com Online News -39892

Panaji, Jan 28 : Goa Tourism Minister Mickky Pacheco has flayed the state's chief minister over the rapes of foreign tourists visiting the famous sea beach destination.

The revolt of Pacheco followed the rape of a nine year old Russian girl on Tuesday evening in one of the beaches and recent such attacks on Russians and other nationals.

According to TV reports, Pachecho on Thursday said that the High Command should take action against those who can't handle their portfollios.

He said he had demanded a meeting between Union Home Minister and Tourism minister but the Chief Minister Digamber Kamat did not respond.

Pachecho said he is tired of the poor law and order situation in the state.

Earlier, the Goa government has sent a detailed report to the Centre in connection with the rape.

Union Tourism minister Kumari Selja had dubbed the incident as "extremely sad and shameful" and demanded immediate action.

Meanwhile, the counsel of the victim and Russian Consulate Vikram Verma said since there was no conviction in the past and no deterrence for such crime, there is growing attack.

"The attackers know they will get away with it because the visitors are on a limited visa and will go back," he said.

The Russian embassy in New Delhi has threatened to issue a travel advisory to its citizens against India if crimes against its nationals did not stop in places like Goa.


--IBNS

 

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Goa may become rape capital of India, fears tourism minister


Panaji, Dec 11 (IANS) Worried by the increasing number of rapes and assaults on tourists in Goa, especially foreigners, state Tourism Minister Mickky Pacheco has said that Goa may soon “gain reputation as the rape capital of India”.

In his letter to state Chief Minister Digambar Kamat Thursday, Pacheco has said that “an impression is gaining ground that the police in Goa is either grossly incompetent or is influenced by other factors as a result of which complaints are not properly investigated”.

“There is a fear that foreign embassies may issue an advisory to their nationals to avoid Goa as a holiday destination in view of the pathetic performance of the Goa police,” Pacheco stated.

The written note to Kamat comes against the backdrop of a 25-year-old Russian woman’s rape, allegedly by local politician John Fernandes. The Russian said that the police initially pressurized her against filing the rape complaint. Ever since the complaint was filed, the police have not even summoned the accused even once for questioning, nor have they arrested him.

Accentuating the charges made against the Goa police by the victim, the letter urges the chief minister to personally revamp the police force and to ensure that the “deplorable image of the police in the eyes of foreign tourists is not allowed to affect tourist arrivals”.

“There is a very strong feeling in local circles, including among lawyers, that the police machinery is directly involved in what is called match-fixing in criminal matters and particularly in bail matters,” the tourism minister said in his letter.

Pacheco stressed that the Russian rape case “has come at the beginning of the tourist season and may once again impact the arrival of tourists, which in any case are less than expected due to economic uncertainties in foreign countries”.