Date: Thursday, July 15, 2021
Two female police officers of Dhaka Metropolitan Police patrolling streets in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The visible presence of female police officers makes women feel safer. Taken on 3 June 2020. Photo: UN Women/Fahad Abdullah Kaizer
In the past 18 months, by trapping women with their abusers, COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns have worsened the already-widespread violence against women while preventing many of them from getting help. But even those who do manage to contact the police come up against another long-standing challenge: a culture and system that treats the survivor as a big part of the problem.
“The biggest challenge we face is that women do not report cases of violence because of victim-blaming attitudes by police officers,” says Police Superintendent Maria Mahmood, Director at the National Police Academy in Pakistan. “When I started working as a police officer, I was shocked to see the deep-rooted bias of a patriarchal police forc
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Kerala woman alleges gangrape in Palani, husband claims police refused to lodge complaint
Kerala woman alleges gangrape in Palani, husband claims police refused to lodge complaint
A woman from Kerala has alleged that she was gangraped in Tamil Nadu’s Palani. Her husband has accused the Palani Police of refusing to register the complaint.
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The Kerala woman was allegedly gangraped by three men in Tamil Nadu s Palani. (Graphic: Rahul Gupta/India Today)
A woman from Kerala’s Kannur was allegedly abducted and gangraped in Tamil Nadu’s Palani on June 20. Her husband has claimed that he had approached the Palani Police, but they refused to help him or register his complaint.