She died this week, 42 years after the attack, and while her case helped change India's euthanasia laws, the country still has a pervasive sexual assault problem.
In the subsequent months, the Me Too movement started to gain traction; survivors came forward and spurred waves of headlines in the media reporting pervasive sexual assault across all industries.
And it is a fallacy that the pervasive rates of assaults are perpetrated by a few bad seeds.
The Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women, Alabama's only women's prison, is the site of sexual assault and "pervasive sexual harassment," says a report to be released Tuesday by The Equal Justice Initiative, a nonprofit group based in Montgomery.
Given how pervasive and normalized sexual assault is, I'm not surprised at where we find ourselves.
Co-written by Diane Warren and directed by Twilight's Catherine Hardwicke, the song and paired video deal with the ugly but pervasive issue of sexual assault, particularly among college students.
According to the IACP, the most significant barrier to successful investigations and prosecutions is "the powerful and pervasive myth that most sexual assault allegations are false".
In February 2014, The New Republic published a report detailing a pattern of pervasive cover-ups of sexual assault at Patrick Henry College.
According to the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network, campus sexual assault poses a "pervasive" threat to many college students.
