Sexual violence in women’s shelters led to mass protests in India

Thus, the Indian authorities try to address the problem of sexual violence in shelters for women and girls.

The state of Bihar in India will begin to hire guards, transgender people and eunuchs to solve the problem of sexual violence in shelters for women and girls. On Thursday, July 19, reports The Guardian.

Noted that the state conducted inspections in more than 100 shelters for women and girls. After that, it became clear that residents of these institutions systematically raped by the guards. Just last week the employee of security service of one of the shelters in the town of Sochi arrested because he raped one of the women directly during working hours.

According to the publication, living in shelters vulnerable women, including victims of sexual violence, human trafficking and former sex workers undergoing rehabilitation. Sexual violence in these centres has led to massive protests in the state.

As explained by the head of the Department of social welfare of the state of Bihar Atul Prasad to solve this problem, the state will begin to hire guards, transgender people and eunuchs.

“Recent incidents of rapes in shelters shocked us. Therefore, we plan to hire eunuchs guards”, – he said.

The publication explains that the eunuchs in India belong to the caste hijara. To them pricheslyayut of intersex people and people whose primary sexual organs cannot be attributed to any specific gender. Recently they began to classify and transsexual men.

“On the one hand, the eunuchs will receive official employment. And on the other they will strengthen security in shelters for women,” Prasad expects.

Earlier it was reported that in India, 17 men have been raped a teenage girl.

Before it became known that the American pastor had raped a teenage girl in the Church.

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