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‘Women’s Safety Fortnight’ begins
‘Women’s Safety Fortnight’ Begins, Crimes Against Women, AP Women’s Commission. According to her, the violence can be kept under control in society once women attain 100 per cent literacy and spread awareness.
Campaign to curb crimes against women
Hyderabad: The AP Women’s Commission in association with various civil society groups kick-started ‘Women’s Safety Fortnight’ at Indira Priyadarshini auditorium at Public Gardens on Monday.
Speaking on the occasion, Union Minister of State for Communication and Information Technology Killi Kruparani felt the need for reducing the political influence in cases pertaining to violence against women. She felt that women should report incidents of violence voluntarily and without any hesitation.
According to her, the violence can be kept under control in society once women attain 100 per cent literacy and spread awareness.
She lamented that only one fourth of the cases related to violence against women were being recorded. “In 2011, when 2,400 cases were recorded, out of them only 1,500 cases were investigated, but irony is that only 400 persons were punished,” the Union Minister pointed out.
She blamed the political influence for the women not taking forward their cases to the courts. “One of the factors in increased atrocities against women is the limited public transport system, which is substituted by private vehicles,” she felt.
Minister for Women and Child Welfare Sunitha Laxma Reddy held that the atrocities against women should be seen as societal problems rather than as isolated incidents.
She felt that it was because the victims fail to get proper justice, these kinds of atrocities repeat. “Therefore the government should take up these pending cases through fast-track courts so that justice is delivered in time,” she noted. women’s commission chairperson T Venkata Ratnam said that the 16-day programme would encourage women to combat gender-based violence and raise awareness on issues such as violence against women, right to life, dowry, human trafficking, sexual harassment at workplace, women and media.
