It happens every month, another gruesome story of violence against women, media provides extensive coverage to it, civil bodies raise an outcry and then it dies down, almost a natural death, screaming and writhing in oblivion.
It began in the year 2012, the fourth wave of feminism which mainly highlighted the issues of sexual harassment cases, the various rape cases, acid victim-survivors, body shaming and many more.
How can we forget the 2012 rape incident which took place in India, one of the most horrifying cases that shook the soul of entire India?
Rape culture has become so common in India that every day at least we can hear two-three girls have come across such a hideous act.
Many students union, protesters came to demand justice for the girl and finally in the year 2020 the four rapists were hanged to death.
At the international level, the women rights movement take place, like the Aurat March in Pakistan and the more significant one was the Me Too movement which was launched in the year 2006 in the United States to assist the survival of sexual violence and females of colour. This gained huge momentum during that period. Victims around the world started sharing their stories about how they have survived abuse, harassment in the workplace as well as in the household.
The fourth wave of feminism is mainly concerned with intersectionality and the use of the internet. Jude Kelly who is the founder of the women of the world(WOW) said in a speech, “WOW is intersectional and intergenerational and must remain so.”
In Libya, HERA is an organisation to create sports spaces for girls to encourage reconciliation, healing and conflict resolution.
But in the end, I would like to raise a question that even if we come across so many hurdles and crossed so many paths, are the sexual violence cases, the system of patriarchy, the rape cases which we can hear on daily basis decreasing by any chance?
Yes, indeed, women can now come out and talk about their issues openly which is a positive side but are there really any decline in the nature or frequency of violence? The answer is certainly a ‘no’.
By
Nabamalika Bordoloi
1st Semester
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