In loving memory of Dr. Moumita Das.

Women Empowerment Culture Worker, Social and Legal Consultant, Thinker, Essayist, Evolutionary Feminist, Social Activist and Campaigner for Women's Rights, Legal and Social Advisor on Matrimonial Law in India, Multi National Award Winning and Internationally acclaimed Multiple World Record Holder, Suicide Prevention Expert, Mayaa SH, a renowned authoress in contemporary literature talks in loving memory of Dr. Moumita Debnath and the rising crime rate in the country.

What is your opinion on the increasing violence and assault on women?

Most development strategies focus on changing individuals, but making progress on gender equality requires addressing collective norms and mindsets. By looking at the change of the collective, entrenched ideas about gender identity, patriarchy, power, and gender norms within policy dialogues and development projects to ensure impact can help to change mindsets. Women are wired and socialised to accept violence and if they make this public, the shame is on them.A change in the collective, entrenched ideas about gender identity, patriarchy, power, and gender norms within policy dialogues and development projects are a must to ensure impact.There are strategies that need to be developed to help change mindsets. In the past, however, the subject of women safety seemed to be overlooked. Many women were / are subjected to being sexually harassed, assaulted and raped by those who felt or feel as though they were or are in the right and looking to gain positions of power.Women’s safety in India is a widely discussed and serious problem. Women are not safe either at home or outside. But our Indian constitution and judiciary established firm and detailed laws for women’s safety. This is the time to acknowledge and implement them to support women’s safety and freedom rights. Sadly, years went by with a society that would rather brush things under the rug than face these wrongdoings head-on. Without support, even powerful women fall to the silence that follows a sexual assault.The number of women and girls coming into contact with the criminal justice system, as victims, witnesses and prisoners, has increased in the past 20 years.

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