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The SafeGoa Project: Working towards Women’s Safety in Goa

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In 2014, as former president Barack Obama launched a task force to prevent sexual violence against women in colleges in the USA, he said, ‘You can judge a nation and how successful it will be, based on how it treats its women and its girls.’  And how true this statement rings as we find our nation, India, among the top five countries in the world deemed unsafe for women as per a Thomson Reuters Foundation expert poll report. Culturally regressive behaviour and the gender divide has tainted us with atrocities in the multitude committed against women. Indian women on their part tend to cower in the face of rape, molestation, sexual harassment and other sexually charged crimes. This is an automatic reaction to the ingrained fear of social stigma. Yes, there is a need to change the mindset of society, but it can take a while before anything happens in that direction. Nevertheless, there are other infrastructural changes we can make in our villages, towns and cities as an immediate measure