Hi Smriti You have raised a very important issue and certainly warrents discussion. We need to put together our thinking cap and find some mechanisim to redress this issue.
Of course there are laws and legislation concerning this, however it is by exception followed. An important thing is for the victim to open up and not yield to situations. It is for women to first organise themselves and articulate coherently. Surely many helping hands would come forward from all quarters. Harish ----- Original Message ----- From: "smriti singh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <accessindia@accessindia.org.in> Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 7:52 AM Subject: [AI] A Burning Issue > Hello Accessindia, > > Some of you must have come across a recent NDTV news > report, which tells us about a case of a > mentally-challenged girl being sexually harassed in > some institution for the mentally-challenged women in > Gaziabad. The issue is, and must be, a matter of great > concern for each one of us. Like it or not, several > visually challenged girls also are being victimised of > such malpractices in several institutions. In Delhi, > for instance, we often hear about such cases in many > hostels for college-going visually challenged girls in > muffled voices. > > In this list, we have many people who are working for > NGOs and various other kinds of such activities. > Therefore, I find this list a very significant > plateform for the discussion of issues of an extreme > concern like this. I strongly feell, and would like to > assert, that there must be some law or some kind of > code of conduct to prevents such instances of the > visually challenged women's sexual harassments. > > Therefore, I would like to have a discussion on this > matter in the list. > > Regards, > > Smriti. > > Smriti Singh > Programme: M. Phil (English Literature) > Room # 03 > Sabarmati Hostel > Jawaharlal Nehru University > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Want to start your own business? > Learn how on Yahoo! Small Business. > http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/r-index > > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, > please visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
