Saturday, June 11, 2011

Indian 'Slut Walk' Debuts In New Delhi


India's most dangerous city for women will be the setting for the nation's first "Slut Walk," the latest such display in what has become a global phenomenon to protest sexual violence.

As the AFP is reporting, scantily-clad women will take to the streets of New Delhi, a city of 16 million residents, where a woman is allegedly raped every 18 hours or molested every 14 hours. Inspired by the original Toronto-based Slutwalk, New Delhi's colorful June 25 display will join similar protests which have taken place around the world, including in the U.S., the Middle East and Europe.

“Things are getting worse in Delhi for women and we haven’t been doing anything about it,” Umang Sabarwal, a 19-year-old theater student at New Delhi's Kamala Nehru College, tells the Toronto Star. “You get on a metro (subway) car here and men stare like animals at you, like you’re meat. It’s weird and yet most women are just silent about it.”

The international "Slut Walk" movement began in Toronto in April, after a local police officer reportedly told students at Osgoode Hall Law School that women should "avoid dressing like sluts" in order to avoid being sexually assaulted. The first Toronto-based demonstration reportedly drew 1,000 people, while similar demonstrations in 60 cities across the U.S., Europe and the Middle East have also been successful.to continue:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/10/new-delhi-slut-walk-sexual-violence-protest-india-_n_874460.html

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