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From birth to death: the struggles of women in India
From birth to death: the struggles of women in India
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Luis Ángel Reglero.
New Delhi, 20 Dec (EFE) .- From the mother's womb, in a country where born girl can be an economic problem, until the end of life and the possibility of helplessness widowhood, being a woman in India is a constant struggle against stereotypes, culture, education and even against the public administration.
Last week, the Indians began to share a video that became a viral on the Internet, two girls defending the alleged harassment of three men in a bus.
The case sparked revulsion in the country and showed that some are not moved or are angry with this attitude despite being seated within inches of where abuse happens.
Also this week various organizations revealed the difficulties that girls and women face in situations such as disability or the loss of her husband, and recalled also the stigma that is for them to simple social consideration - prohibited by law, but widely accepted - of that the woman's family must pay a dowry in marriage.
"It is time for change, but it will take a genuine social revolution to end a patriarchal and sexist mentality," he told Efe Sehjo Singh Agency, Program Director and Policy ActionAid organization.
ActionAid revealed this week that India "loses every day" about seven thousand girls before six years, some even murdered shortly after birth in a society where being a man "is better."
Sehjo warned that discrimination and inequality towards women is so embedded in the Asian giant that "before birth you are already doomed" because in India there are practices such as selective abortions of girls.
These practices help to form "a huge problem, because they are born only 914 girls per thousand boys, when the natural would be the opposite," which contributes to an increasingly society "dominated by masculinity," said the activist.
The helplessness inherited childhood turns into a life obstacle which is not easy to break free and even less when institutional support is flawed, as evidence a report this week in New Delhi by the NGO Humans Rights Watch (HRW).
The organization called on the government to act and review the situation of all centers and service centers for disabled and mentally ill in the country. They warned that dozens of women are abandoned by their families and even admitted by force in sanatoriums, some of them without any mental problem.
Despite being the second most populated country in the world, with 1.252 billion people, according to the study, entitled "Treated worse than animals: abuses against women and girls with psychosocial or intellectual disabilities in institutions in India," the country has only 43 of these mental health centers.
To Kriti Sharma, a researcher at Human Rights Watch and author of the work, the state of helplessness that comes with the mentally ill in a system that does not give them a voice when it comes to live with their illness or disability becomes even more evident with women and girls .
Many of them are abused or are simply abandoned by relatives, arriving even to provide false information in the institutions for them never to be found, in fact condemning the alleged patient to a confinement without time limit.
The helplessness increases with widowhood, explains a report by the United Nations (UN), also this week: "Empowering widows: an overview of the policies and programs of India, Nepal and Sri Lanka."
In India, many widows become pariahs in signs of bad luck, which condemns them to beg and some are even burned alive for witchcraft.
The city of Vrindavan, north of the country, has become a haven for these women. Currently, 15,000 widows trying to survive singing in temples for a few a few rupees or a handful of rice.
In its report, the UN called on governments, as the Indian, to do away with this "no rights".
"No more words, what I want is action," said Mohini Giri, one of the activists participating in the study. EFE
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From birth to death: the struggles of women in India
From birth to death: the struggles of women in India
Yahoo Notícias/ThinkStock - Do nascimento à morte: a luta da mulher na Índia
From birth to death: the struggles of women in India
Yahoo News / Thinkstock - From birth to death: the struggles of women in India
Luis Ángel Reglero.
New Delhi, 20 Dec (EFE) .- From the mother's womb, in a country where born girl can be an economic problem, until the end of life and the possibility of helplessness widowhood, being a woman in India is a constant struggle against stereotypes, culture, education and even against the public administration.
Last week, the Indians began to share a video that became a viral on the Internet, two girls defending the alleged harassment of three men in a bus.
The case sparked revulsion in the country and showed that some are not moved or are angry with this attitude despite being seated within inches of where abuse happens.
Also this week various organizations revealed the difficulties that girls and women face in situations such as disability or the loss of her husband, and recalled also the stigma that is for them to simple social consideration - prohibited by law, but widely accepted - of that the woman's family must pay a dowry in marriage.
"It is time for change, but it will take a genuine social revolution to end a patriarchal and sexist mentality," he told Efe Sehjo Singh Agency, Program Director and Policy ActionAid organization.
ActionAid revealed this week that India "loses every day" about seven thousand girls before six years, some even murdered shortly after birth in a society where being a man "is better."
Sehjo warned that discrimination and inequality towards women is so embedded in the Asian giant that "before birth you are already doomed" because in India there are practices such as selective abortions of girls.
These practices help to form "a huge problem, because they are born only 914 girls per thousand boys, when the natural would be the opposite," which contributes to an increasingly society "dominated by masculinity," said the activist.
The helplessness inherited childhood turns into a life obstacle which is not easy to break free and even less when institutional support is flawed, as evidence a report this week in New Delhi by the NGO Humans Rights Watch (HRW).
The organization called on the government to act and review the situation of all centers and service centers for disabled and mentally ill in the country. They warned that dozens of women are abandoned by their families and even admitted by force in sanatoriums, some of them without any mental problem.
Despite being the second most populated country in the world, with 1.252 billion people, according to the study, entitled "Treated worse than animals: abuses against women and girls with psychosocial or intellectual disabilities in institutions in India," the country has only 43 of these mental health centers.
To Kriti Sharma, a researcher at Human Rights Watch and author of the work, the state of helplessness that comes with the mentally ill in a system that does not give them a voice when it comes to live with their illness or disability becomes even more evident with women and girls .
Many of them are abused or are simply abandoned by relatives, arriving even to provide false information in the institutions for them never to be found, in fact condemning the alleged patient to a confinement without time limit.
The helplessness increases with widowhood, explains a report by the United Nations (UN), also this week: "Empowering widows: an overview of the policies and programs of India, Nepal and Sri Lanka."
In India, many widows become pariahs in signs of bad luck, which condemns them to beg and some are even burned alive for witchcraft.
The city of Vrindavan, north of the country, has become a haven for these women. Currently, 15,000 widows trying to survive singing in temples for a few a few rupees or a handful of rice.
In its report, the UN called on governments, as the Indian, to do away with this "no rights".
"No more words, what I want is action," said Mohini Giri, one of the activists participating in the study. EFE
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