Schoolgirls protesting in India Protests about the treatment of women and rape victims have ignited in India after the gang rape of a female student on the 16th of December. Demonstrations and outrage has escalated after another rape victim committed suicide yesterday after being told by police to marry her rapist. While the situation for women in India is under scrutiny lets not forget that  at least 47,000 adult women are raped every year in the UK (Fawcett Society, Rape: The Facts) and the conviction rates for rapists are shockingly low. The problem is global and in no way confined to the ‘third world’.  
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Schoolgirls protesting in India

Protests about the treatment of women and rape victims have ignited in India after the gang rape of a female student on the 16th of December. Demonstrations and outrage has escalated after another rape victim committed suicide yesterday after being told by police to marry her rapist. While the situation for women in India is under scrutiny lets not forget that  at least 47,000 adult women are raped every year in the UK (Fawcett Society, Rape: The Facts) and the conviction rates for rapists are shockingly low. The problem is global and in no way confined to the ‘third world’.  

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