Delays in investigation, justice add to trauma of abuse victims
India, Nov. 3 -- The 21-year-old resident of a Delhi shelter home fits a few statistical categories of the 2015-16 National Family Health Survey (NFHS) report. For instance, she is among 36.3% of women who have never married, live in a city and have enough freedom of movement to visit a health facility. But she does not fit the cohort that agrees wives are entitled to refuse intercourse. For one, she is not married. Furthermore, her consent was never sought....
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