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Submit a report or suggestions? That's it? Women are looked down upon if they aren't virgins and yet it seems that it is a struggle to stay a virgin. I don't understand? If men in these types of countries hold a woman's virginity to be one of a top priority for a potential wife, then why do they violate so many woman and taking their virginity. Many of these women if they inform their family about their attack, they are killed by their own fathers and brothers. Many of these men that violate women have wives and daughters of their own. Do they expect them to protect their virtue against men like themselves? These women were not given a choice. They were ordered and forced to preform these acts. It really saddens me that some people can be so cruel to others and it doesn't seem to bother them in the least.

Haryana cops raped us: Children's home inmates - Indian Express

Inmates of the Apna Ghar shelter in Rohtak told a four-member committee that visited them today that they were gangraped by Haryana Police officials, who made them dance naked and forcibly took them out of the home. According to sources, two of the inmates one deaf and mute and the other mentally challenged said that when they got pregnant, the incharge of the home stepped on their stomachs and inserted sticks inside their private parts to force abortions. On May 10, a National Commission for Protection of Child Rights team had raided Apna Ghar run by an NGO, Bharat Vikas Sangh, and rescued 94 minors, mostly girls. Incharge Jaswanti Devi and her son-in-law Jai Bhagwan were arrested. The four-member committee today visited four shelter homes in Panipat, Sonepat, Karnal and Chhachhroli where the minors had been shifted. They talked to 28 inmates. Almost all the inmates reportedly said that Haryana Police officials were frequent visitors to Apna Ghar and would abuse them…Read More

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For 6 years, we at The 50 Million Missing Campaign have been working hard to tell the world about the ongoing female gendercide in India which has killed about 50 million women in the country in 3 generations through practices like infanticide, feticide, deliberate starvation and neglect of girl under 6 years, dowry murders, bride 'trafficking,' "honor" killings, and "witch" hunts. It is our…

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