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End India's rape epidemic

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End India's rape epidemic
The Cabinet just passed a hasty new law that makes it harder to punish rapists. Unfortunately, President Mukherjee gave it his seal of approval. Please use the form on the right to fax him demanding real progress on rape now.

Feel free to use the suggested talking points below to write your message. Please remember to be polite.

Talking Points
  • As President, you must take responsibility for signing a failed ordinance that does little to protect women;
  • The full Verma Committee report must be implemented in both letter and spirit to end the culture of impunity that has allowed a rape epidemic to flourish across India;
  • The only way to solve this crisis is to address the root causes by funding a mass public education campaign to transform the status of women;
  • Please promise that you will refuse to sign any new anti-rape law that doesn’t fully implement the Justice Verma Committee’s recommendations.

Background

Something incredible has been happening across India as men and women and people of all backgrounds have come together to demand an end to the mistreatment, harassment and rape of our mothers, sisters, daughters and friends. The government is moving in response, but they're not doing enough and we can't let up now.

Just last week, the President approved new rules that our government claimed were designed to address the problem of sexual violence, but outrageously they still allow husbands to rape their wives and soldiers to rape civilians! We didn't come out into the streets and start an historic national movement for insulting half-measures like this. If we let the President know this isn't good enough, he can use his influence with Sonia Gandhi and within Congress to force the government to abandon these temporary rules and enact real protections for women.

Let's send President Mukherjee a deafening message that he can't be President for only half the Republic. Click on the right and help get thousands of messages streaming into the Presidential palace calling for strong action to end the rape epidemic.
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