Preventing crimes against women

Laj Utreja, Director, Institute of Global Harmony
Surendra Pathak, (PhD) Director, Research, IASE,
Sardarshahr
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
April 18, 2013

National Outrage and the Aftermath
The outrage:
 The Dec. 16 gang rape and assault of a physiotherapy student, and her
subsequent death, prompted widespread and sometimes violent
protests in India
The aftermath:
 5 women raped in 3 days in Delhi
 Girl jumps out of auto in Hyderabad to escape molester
 The real Gauhati shame: We are a nation of onlookers
 Leaders charged with crimes against women to quit
The findings and immediate actions:
 Shortage of women cops in Delhi, cases pile up
 Need to increase women police force for better security
 Police to make women's protection their priority
 Set up fast track courts for crimes against women
National Poll on rape: 100 percent want stricter laws

Women Rally to Protest for Justice
and Security for Women
“The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of
great moral crises maintain their neutrality.” - Dante Alighieri

India Passes Sweeping Bill on Crimes
against Women
The bill amends India’s criminal laws, intended to deter
and punish sexual offenders, including men who stalk and
harass women, and creates a more responsive police and
judicial system, widely criticized as being insensitive when
dealing with crimes against women
 Recommendations adopted: creation of stalking,
voyeurism and disrobing as separate offenses, provisions to
punish police officers who failed to register complaints of
sexual offenses, and a broadening of the definition of rape
to include the insertion of an object or any other body part
into a woman’s private parts
 Recommendations not included: the death penalty in
some rape cases and raising the age of consent for sex to 18
What is needed is enforcement and implementation

Crimes Against Women Conference
Dallas, TX, April 8-10, 2013
According to statistics, everyday in America three women die at
the hands of a boyfriend, husband, or ex-husband
 Federal, state, and local law enforcement officers, prosecutors,
and victim advocates gathered to educate themselves on ways
to improve investigation and prosecution of crimes against
women
 A vast array of topics covered stalking, gang violence,
prostitution, human trafficking, sexual assault, strangulation,
and domestic violence
 Five or 10 years ago, no one was talking about this. It is on
everybody’s radar now
Access to training and resources is key. “Give the tools that these
guys need to put the bad guys in jail for a really long time.”

Can We Prevent Crimes against Women?
How can we prevent female foeticide,
eve teasing, molestation and rapes in
the country?
• Do we need further change in the
law?
• Do we need to impart the right
education, which includes: values,
spirituality and gender sensitivity?
• Do we need to equip the girls
with the right tools and resources?
• Do we need a change in the
mindset?

What We are up against?
You are a man and looking for information
 So you start reading a newspaper
 So you want to look up for something on the internet
 So you are staying in a dorm, a rented room, or a motel room
with a laptop
 So you are in a village and there is one laptop that your
friend brings and everyone else gathers around him
You are a young girl
 Home alone and you have all sorts of visitors during the day
 Go visit your boy friend alone in his room
 Travel in a railroad train, a bus, etc.
Uninhibited Sex and violence is all around us
It all stays in the mind

What is the Mind?
 It is subtle adjunct to the physical body
 It reflects the subjective ‘consciousness or ‘I’’
 It gives meaning to an object once acquired
 It is unique quality of the mind to unite the subject
‘I’ with the ‘physical body’
Mind is the instrument through which the subject
‘I’ expresses and experiences all emotions
Copyright © 2013, Laj Utreja-Institute of Global Harmony. All Rights
Reserved.

Current Human Expression
 We lack common sense and free will
 We’ve become too self-centered
 We’ve lost balance between material and spiritual
development
 We’ve lost self-respect and respect for the other
 We’ve lost self-confidence and trust in the other
We’ve gone too far in material development

State of Our Civilization
 Disregard for human values
 Disconnected families and societies
 Degraded political systems
 Broken economic systems
 Superiority of faiths
 Rampant corruption, hypocrisy, and misuse of
wealth and power
 Fragmented perspectives
 A violated earth, unclean waters and polluted air
Our civilization needs total transformation

One World Polarized
 Powerful and the Commoner
 Haves and the Neglected
Is it acceptable by our civil society?

What is a Civil society?
A state of society, in which a high level of respect
and appreciation for human life and
environment, law and order, education, different
philosophical and religious views and cultural
expression have been reached and people can
freely pursue their areas of endeavor
Cordial and respectful behavior between persons
and among groups is the mark of a civil society
Copyright © 2013, Laj Utreja-Institute of Global Harmony. All Rights Reserved.

How do We Prevent Crimes
against Women?
By changing the objective mindset about women
and bringing social harmony

What is Harmonious Civilization?
A mutually agreeable and harmonious relationship
among people of all nations and their constituent
groups (cultural, racial, gender and religious,
including group orders such as social, political,
economic) and the environment for a prosperous,
peaceful and sustainable world without an
individual or collective group or order losing its
identity and/or character
Harmonious Civilization results from a universal
code of conduct for mutual acceptance and co-
existence

How Do We Bring Harmony?
 The only way to achieve global harmony is by developing a
mind willing to live in harmony
 One of the most effective ways to develop an appropriate
mind is through self-assessment, self-training and self-
transformation.
 Mental attitudes and physical actions to which they lead
are the key considerations for self-transformation and
social-transformation
 The important factors to bring about global harmony must
be introduced through appropriate education at a very
young age
Redeeming purpose in life and its pursuit augment our
desire for harmony

Purpose of Education
The purpose of education is not only to: teach the student a
trade; prepare the student for a productive career; enable a
student to earn a good income, compete to stay ahead of the
other communities or nations in technology, or preserve a
particular doctrine, but to live in peace and harmony with the
rest of the environment. In other words, the purpose of
education must be to produce socially responsible citizens. A
socially responsible person is one who is sensitive toward fellow
human beings (of different faith, race, gender and age) and the
environment so that the society as well as the environment is
sustained. The sustaining principle is one that must not change
with space, time or the human mind.
The only sustaining principle that would stand the test of that
unbounded domain is the Golden Rule, “Do not do unto others
that you wouldn't want done unto you.”

Institute of Global Harmony
The Vision
The Institute of Global Harmony (IGH) is an
experiment to explore a collective teaching and
learning experience that will create future
generations of people, who believe of their own
accord in the dictum that the only way to live a
life of happiness and without fear is to live in
harmony with themselves, the society, and the
environment. In doing so, they have freedom to
realize full potential and achieve excellence in
their pursuits.

Institute of Global Harmony
The Mission
Provide a free thinking and factual learning
environment in which the teachers and students are
exposed to state-of-the-art knowledge in the
prevailing practices and consequences of
agriculture, business, education, medicine, media,
technology, and the prevailing political, economic
and social orders to prepare them to devise and
develop local conducive conditions to stay in peace
and harmony among themselves, the nations and
the environment.
Copyright © 2013, Laj Utreja-Institute of Global Harmony. All Rights
Reserved.

Preventing crimes against women

Recomendados

Recomendados

Mais conteúdo relacionado

Mais procurados

Mais procurados (20)

Destaque

Destaque (20)

Semelhante a Preventing crimes against women

Semelhante a Preventing crimes against women (17)

Preventing crimes against women