India is the world’s most dangerous country for women due to the high risk of sexual violence and being forced into slave labour, according to a poll of global experts released on Tuesday. War-torn Afghanistan and Syria ranked second and third in the Thomson Reuters Foundation survey of about 550 experts on women’s issues, followed by Somalia and Saudi Arabia. The only western nation in the top 10 was the […]

Pepper spray isn’t enough in India. Anti-rape jeans, footwear and innerwear are the new security devices women are coming up with to counter India’s growing problem of crime against women.  On Friday, two such designs- sandals that deliver electric shocks and jeans that have an inbuilt SOS button – were unveiled by college girls in Uttar Pradesh, a state in the news almost every day for incidents of rape and […]