- India is home to the largest number of sexual abused children in the World.
- It is estimated that one of every three girls and one of every five boys before the age of 18 have been sexually molested.
- A nationwide survey conducted by the Ministry of Women and Child development threw light on the amount of Child Abuse that children suffer in our country.
- 53% of the children surveyed in the survey reported Sexual Abuse.
- Sexual abuse of the children is highest at work followed by those at Institutional care.
- The number of cases of Sexual Harassment in India in 2002 were 10,155, an increase of 4.2 per cent over the previous year (9746).
- There has been a steady increase in the number of women reporting sexual harassment, from 4,756 in 1995 to 11,024 in 2000.
- A survey by the National Women’s Commission reports that 46.58% of women report sexual harassment in the work place; only about 3.54% report the matter to authorities; 1.4% reported it to the police.
- In 2001, a five-state survey of workplace sexual harassment undertaken by Sakshi, a NGO in New Delhi, reported that 80% of the respondents said sexual harassment existed in their work place. Only 23% had heard of the Vishaka Guidelines; 66% of these said that the institutions had not effectively implemented these guidelines. When they had been implemented, redress seemed to be biased.
- In India every 26 minutes, a woman is molested
- In India every 34 minutes, a woman is raped.
- In India every 93 minutes, a woman is killed.
- Till December 2007, in Mumbai there had been 160 cases of rape reported and there were about 1100 cases of molestation, eve teasing and other crimes against Women.
- In Delhi in 2007, there were 587 reported cases of rape. Of the people arrested in rape cases, 340 were neighbours, 94 were friends and 62 were relatives. Only in ten cases, the accused were strangers
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