Breaking News repost: Delhi gang-rape victim dies in hospital in Singapore

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Delhi gang-rape victim dies in hospital in Singapore
BBC News: The 23-year-old woman gang-raped on a bus in India’s capital Delhi has died at a Singapore hospital, doctors say.

“The patient passed away peacefully at 4:45am on 29 Dec 2012,” a statement from the hospital said. The patient’s family had been by her side, it added.
The 23-year-old had arrived in Singapore on Thursday after undergoing three operations in a Delhi hospital.

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Photo: A young woman, one hand covered in fake blood, takes part in a protest earlier Friday in Calcutta against the gang rape of a student. (Piyal Adhikary / EPA via NBC News)

Evil triumphs when good people do nothing. Period.

 

 [image description: two Desi women holding up a sign at a demonstration that says,
"Imagine a world free of sexual violence on women. Can you?”
In the middle of the sign is an illustration of a woman.]

(Source: theuntitledmag)

A disturbing, but all too familiar incident that illustrates why the work to stop violence against women is not over by a long shot.

From globalpost on Tumblr:

MUMBIA, India — On July 9, a group of men attacked a girl after she stepped out of a club on a busy street in Guwahati, Assam. A reporter, who was later joined by a cameraman, filmed the entire incident, and a local television channel released the footage the following day.

The girl was molested, burned, and beaten for at least half an hour. The men tried to strip off her clothes. The girl fruitlessly begged bystanders, passersby, and the men filming for help – nobody put a stop to it.

Read more at GlobalPost