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Activists of All India Mahila Sanskritika Sanghatane (AIMSS) launched a month-long signature run successful the metropolis connected Tuesday to gully attraction of the State authorities to the summation successful atrocities against women and children successful society.
The run is portion of a State-wide exercise, and the AIMSS expressed interest implicit nonaccomplishment of the authorities to apprehension the increasing transgression against women and children.
Citing statistic from the National Crime Records Bureau, the AIMSS said that betwixt 2023 and 2025 determination were 16,272 cases of intersexual harassment registered successful Karnataka, 5,456 dowry cases, 10,510 POCSO cases, 412 kid marriages among others.
It said arsenic galore arsenic 900 cases of pistillate foeticide were reported successful 2 years successful Bengaluru and Mysuru alone, each of which constituent to illness of instrumentality and order. Between 2019 and 2021, determination were 40,000 cases of missing girls, and these were lone the registered cases, it said.
The AIMSS besides lashed retired connected the societal media for reflecting vulgarities and ‘commodification’ of women and girls. The reels connected societal media were having a antagonistic power connected the caller procreation and values were connected a decline, the AIMSS added.
The month-long signature run volition besides see seminars, workshops, radical discussions connected applicable issues with the pupil community, taste programmes, screening documentaries and films that beforehand values and ethics, according to the AIMSS.
It has urged the authorities to guarantee information for women and children successful nationalist places, offices and spot of work, fast-track cases of molestation and rape and guarantee stringent punishment to the convicts, ace down connected pornography and sleazy contented connected societal media, curb quality trafficking, and instrumentality steps to guarantee acquisition to each girls.
