Innovators enlist citizen journalists to combat India’s rape crisis

Innovators enlist citizen journalists to combat India's rape crisis

Almost a year has passed since the Delhi gang rape turned the world's attention to the treatment of women in India.

The Dec. 16 rape and subsequent death of the 23-year-old physiotherapy student was covered widely by international news outlets and spread quickly over social media, mobilizing Indians to take to the streets in protest. In response, the government swiftly convicted the rapists and passed an anti-rape bill that imposes harsher punishments on sexual offenders—a set of efficient, rapid-fire actions that may have been influenced by the degree of attention the case received.

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