Kaveetaa Kaul
Happened to read a most disturbing piece reported in BBC.
Women ‘get blame for being raped’
Distressed woman
Fewer than 6% of reported rapes result in a conviction
A third of people believe a woman is partially or completely responsible for being raped if she has behaved flirtatiously, a survey suggests.)
The Amnesty International poll of 1,000 people also found over 25% believe she is at least partly to blame if she has worn revealing clothing or been drunk.Amnesty says the “shocking” findings show government policies are failing.
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And the director of public prosecutions told the BBC the report “highlights some areas of real concern”.Ken Macdonald QC, who is in charge of prosecutions in England and Wales, spoke to BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour.
“The idea that a third of our people think that if a woman flirts she has only herself to blame if she is raped is, I think, quite shocking,” he said.
“These are jury trials. The jury is the community in the courtroom and it is reasonable to suppose the jury brings into the courtroom a lot of the attitudes we have been reading about.”
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Nothing can be traced back to male unreasonability when it comes to battle between the sexes. (more…)
Sachiniti 