Junior doctors in India’s Kolkata are defying a court order to continue protests against the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at a state-run hospital in the city.
The discovery of the body of the 31-year-old woman on 9 August had sparked nationwide outrage.
A hospital volunteer was arrested for the crime, which is now being investigated by a federal agency.
While protests have died down in other parts of India, doctors in Kolkata say they will hold firm until their demands are met.
Protesters have set up camp outside the state’s health department headquarters, voicing five key demands: justice for the victim, the removal of senior police officials, and enhanced security for health workers, among them.
That is how you strike. Until you get what you want. No stopping because daddy government said so.
Yeah this is it. Respect to these, I hope they get it.
I know it’s probably anecdotal, but I feel like I have always seen a ridiculous amount of rape news from India.
I read that something like 25% of children are victims of SA. It’s deeply ingrained in the culture.
Source? I just looked up some stats, and it appears sexual assault is less common in India then it is in even the US.
This one says 20% for boys and 42% for girls
I guess when you get tired of writing stories about school shootings, rapes, and murders in your own country, you can always… actually I have no fucking idea…
Maybe they just want you to “know” that brown people are bad?
You’re right. It could be bias that only those stories make it over here often. For sure America has its own issues with endless shootings stories or police violence.
I guarantee school shooting stories make it to India every time it happens. Pretending that gang rape isn’t a major problem in India under an article about a mass medical staff strike linked directly to a gang rape is fucking ridiculous.
America has a gun problem and India has a rape problem
Look up some statistics, this is simply not true comparatively.
India has 2.6 per 100k and USA is 41.8 per 100k.
The data sucks, and is hard to level, but even still you can see that they are not even close to the worst countries.
And while there is an estimated 60% of unreported rapes in India, that doesn’t even come close to making the gap, not to mention there is under reporting in the US as well.
Yeah but you’re leaving out gang rapes. Plus it’s impossible to accurately estimate unreported rapes. How often do you see cases of gang rapes in a public setting inside America? No one is saying rapes in America dont happen but to claim India doesn’t have a serious problem regarding rape is just disingenuous. And the source I used is coming from a women’s rights activist so I’m going to take their word for it instead of a random on the internet.
It’s like claiming America doesn’t have a gun problem just because intentional shootings in El Salvador or Venezuela happen at a higher rate
