‘I Pledge to Walk Alone’: Activists Demand Safer Cities for Women in India

The swift action is an attempt to answer critics who say that official response to rape in India has historically been slow, tepid, and ineffective. Some 95,000 rape cases are currently pending in Indian courts, according to the BBC, and in the capital, where sexual assaults are at a record high, only 1 of the 635 rape cases filed last year has resulted in a conviction to date.

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    These pledges are everything.

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    I, for one, believe that violent brutal acts like this should really stop.

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