Take Your Brother Along: Why We Need to Stop Saying this to Girls

A woman’s safety should be ensured not because she is a sister, mother, wife or girlfriend. But because she is a human.
A woman’s safety should be ensured not because she is a sister, mother, wife or girlfriend. But because she is a human.
The reason that women must be respected because they are somebody’s (figuratively, a man’s) mother, daughter or sister. They must be protected because they hold ‘family honour’ and must be protected from men, for men and by men. Read why Nirbhaya, the term, should be questioned.
A 19 year old girl was gang raped by four men while she went to the fields to help her family cut fodder for animals.
In these seven years, many time she was also seen in tears in front of the camera. Meanwhile, there were people, who questioned her for letting her daughter stay out late at night while some asked her to forgive the convicts.
It took 7 long years, numerous petitions, candle march and protests for Nibhaya’s mother to get justice for her daughter, for Nirbhaya convicts to reap what they sowed.
7 years after brutal gang rape, Nirbhaya convicts were hanged to death at Tihar Jail. Less than two hours before the execution, the Supreme Court dismissed the final petition by the convicts. The four who convicted in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case were hanged to death at 5.30am on Friday, ending a long […]
A 23-year-old girl was brutally gang-raped and murdered by six men including a juvenile in Delhi. The incident took place on the night of 16 December 2012.
As of now, Akshay is the third out of the four convicts in the case to file mercy petition. Mukesh Singh and Vinay Sharma have also filed their mercy pleas.
President Ram Nath Kovind rejected the mercy petition filed by Mukesh Singh, one of the convicts in the Nirbhaya Case.
The Delhi Government told High Court that under the prison rules, they have to wait for the convict’s mercy plea to be decided for executing a death warrant.Â