Bonus: The Global Story - Why can't India tackle its sexual violence crisis?
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Your weekly bonus episode of The Global Story.
The brutal rape and murder of a student on a bus in Delhi shocked the world in 2012. Yet despite the Indian government introducing stricter laws on sexual violence, little progress has been made to actually make women safer.
Last month there were widespread protests after the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at the hospital where she worked. What should India’s leaders do differently to protect women at home, at work and on the streets?
On this episode, Katya Adler speaks to the BBC’s India correspondent Soutik Biswas and presenter Devina Gupta.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello this is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Valerie |
| 0:05.9 | Sanderson with your weekly bonus from the Global Story which brings you a single |
| 0:10.1 | story with depth and insight from the BBC's best journalists. |
| 0:15.0 | There's a new episode every weekday, just search for the global story wherever you get your |
| 0:19.3 | pods and be sure to subscribe so you don't miss a single episode. |
| 0:24.0 | Here's my colleague Katia Adler. |
| 0:26.0 | Before we start today's episode, |
| 0:28.0 | I just need to let you know that we're going to talk about rape and sexual violence against women. |
| 0:33.3 | Some of the stories we're discussing contain very upsetting details. |
| 0:38.0 | India has seen a wave of furious protests across the country that follows the rape and the murder of a trainee doctor in the hospital she was working in. |
| 0:49.0 | But alongside these very public displays of anger and of outrage there is a deep sense in India of frustration as well. |
| 1:00.0 | I travel by public transport every day and I get harassed each and every day. |
| 1:06.0 | This cannot go on. |
| 1:07.0 | A whole raft of new laws have been introduced in recent years to supposedly clamp down on sexual violence but government data shows |
| 1:15.1 | on average a woman report to rape every 15 minutes in India and that is presumed to be just |
| 1:21.5 | the tip of the iceberg with a lot of the aggression going unreported. |
| 1:25.6 | So today we're asking, what can, what should India's leaders do differently to ensure that women are safer at home at work and out and about on the streets. With me today is the BBC's India correspondent Shotik Biswais. |
| 1:44.4 | Hi Shotik. Hello, good to see you. Hello. And presenter Devina |
| 1:48.2 | Gopter. Devina, hello. Namaste. |
| 1:51.0 | Hello. |
| 1:52.0 | Welcome back both of you to the program. |
| 1:54.0 | You are great friends of the global story, but today we're talking about a subject that's new to us |
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