This article was published by Pluto Press on 22/01/2013, shortly after the young student, Jyoti Singh Pandey was brutally raped on a bus in Delhi. Jyoti's rape and subsequent death led to massive protests across the country. Amrit Wilson asks critical questions about the devastating violence against women and protests in India:
"Will these protests now broaden out further, taking on board the rapes by the army and paramilitaries in states like Kashmir, Manipur, and Chhattisgarh where these rapists are protected by impunity laws? Will they confront the rapes by upper caste men of Dalit women? Or the rapes of Muslim women by those who are part of, or influenced, by the Hindy Right?" READ MORE
FREEDOM WITHOUT FEAR was set up in London UK, in solidarity with the anti-rape movement in India. It is an arena for Black, South Asian and 'Minority Ethnic' women to lead discussions on the violence against women and girls; to counter imperialist racist discourse that UK mainstream media bombards us with and; to highlight the co-opting of violence against women and girls issues by various groups who seek to further their own racist/ anti-immigration/ Islamophobic agendas.
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