Records show rising incidences of rape in India.
Some deemed these measures insufficient in a country where classified advertisements still segregated job openings by sex, where state laws restricted women's access to contraception, and where incidences of rape and domestic violence remained undisclosed.
Intellectual Development Isn't Keeping Up With Economic Progress: Sampat Singh, a Haryana Congress legislator, said Monday, "Haryana has progressed economically, but it has not developed mentally and intellectually, leading to rising incidences of rape in the state".
On Monday, the Haryana Congress legislator Sampat Singh said, "Haryana has progressed economically, but it has not developed mentally and intellectually, leading to rising incidences of rape in the state".
The report, If They Had Hope, They Would Speak (pdf), highlights 118 incidences of rape, gang rape and sexual assault in both ceasefire and non-ceasefire areas at the hands of Burma's armed forces since 2010 – but notes that these figures are likely to be "a fraction" of the number of abuses actually taking place.
During a trip to South Omo in January, officials from DfID and the US international aid agency, USAid, were told by men and women from the Mursi and Bodi ethnic groups of incidences of rape, arrests, withholding food aid, intimidation and threats as the Ethiopian government seeks to evict people from their land to make way for commercial investments.
Infection rates are usually linked to the incidence of rape and other unprotected sexual incidents, especially in times of armed conflict and civil unrest.
"By providing convincing evidence that spikes in the degree of partying at a university escalate the incidence of rape, our results suggest that efforts to avoid such spikes could serve to reduce the incidence of rape," they wrote.
