Study on women in Northeast
Crime against fairer sex on rise:
Guwahati: The country's Northeast region, considered the safest for women, is fast losing its reputation with rising incidence of crime against women.
A study by the Rashtriya Gramin Vikash Nidhi, a centrally backed development support organisation, shows that crime against women in the region on the rise. Insurgency in the region has only aggravated the situation with women bearing the brunt.
While in the year 2001, the cases of rape, kidnap and sexual harassment were 758, 1070 and 850 respectively, the number of rape cases has gone up to 1000 in 2006.
The cases of torture by husbands that stood at 1248 in 2001 too have gone up to 1944 last year.
In 2002 the number of rape cases was 903, 2003 the figure is 1049 while the record number was in 2005 when the number rose to 1217, the study shows.
Similarly cases of sexual harassment has gone up from 850 to nearly 900 in 2005 while there were as many as 99 dowry deaths in 2005 and 67 last year.
The findings paint a different picture of Assam where the population boasts of no dowry in the marriages and the society is considered matriarchal.
Torture by spouses is also on the rise with 1248 case reported in 2001 while last year the figure was upto 1944. The study also found that many crimes went unreported and women interviewed more reluctant to divulge the details of their harassment.
Added to this in the region armed conflict in the form of a "low intensity silent war" has been going on for decades and the impact of the conflict on women and their lives has been profound.
Many women revealed during the study that the insurgency has affected their lives and livelihood.
Posted On: The Times of India
Guwahati: The country's Northeast region, considered the safest for women, is fast losing its reputation with rising incidence of crime against women.
A study by the Rashtriya Gramin Vikash Nidhi, a centrally backed development support organisation, shows that crime against women in the region on the rise. Insurgency in the region has only aggravated the situation with women bearing the brunt.
While in the year 2001, the cases of rape, kidnap and sexual harassment were 758, 1070 and 850 respectively, the number of rape cases has gone up to 1000 in 2006.
The cases of torture by husbands that stood at 1248 in 2001 too have gone up to 1944 last year.
In 2002 the number of rape cases was 903, 2003 the figure is 1049 while the record number was in 2005 when the number rose to 1217, the study shows.
Similarly cases of sexual harassment has gone up from 850 to nearly 900 in 2005 while there were as many as 99 dowry deaths in 2005 and 67 last year.
The findings paint a different picture of Assam where the population boasts of no dowry in the marriages and the society is considered matriarchal.
Torture by spouses is also on the rise with 1248 case reported in 2001 while last year the figure was upto 1944. The study also found that many crimes went unreported and women interviewed more reluctant to divulge the details of their harassment.
Added to this in the region armed conflict in the form of a "low intensity silent war" has been going on for decades and the impact of the conflict on women and their lives has been profound.
Many women revealed during the study that the insurgency has affected their lives and livelihood.
Posted On: The Times of India