Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Foreword
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Reaping Morocco’s Demographic Dividend: Lessons from Sub-Saharan Africa
- Chapter 2 Social Media as a Weapon: How the Youth in Rio de Janeiro’s Favelas Fight Police Violence
- Chapter 3 Mobilising Human Capital to Harness the Demographic Dividend: The Role of the Diaspora as Actors of Change in the Gambia
- Chapter 4 Engaging Youth to Address Sexual Violence in India
- Chapter 5 Putting the African Girl at the Centre of Demographic Change Programmes
- Chapter 6 From Incarceration to Transformation: Ex-Gang Members as Actors of Change in Los Angeles
- Chapter 7 African Continental Youth Policy as a Tool for Harnessing the Demographic Dividend
- Chapter 8 Digital Mindfulness for Indian Millennials
- Chapter 9 Lessons from Africa: What Can a Community of Pastoralists Offer the International Cooperation Community?
- Chapter 10 Revisiting Democracy: Intersectionality, Youth and the Imperative of ‘Climate Justice’ – Sardinia’s ‘Europe Day’
- Acknowledgements
- Index
Chapter 4 - Engaging Youth to Address Sexual Violence in India
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 February 2022
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Foreword
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Reaping Morocco’s Demographic Dividend: Lessons from Sub-Saharan Africa
- Chapter 2 Social Media as a Weapon: How the Youth in Rio de Janeiro’s Favelas Fight Police Violence
- Chapter 3 Mobilising Human Capital to Harness the Demographic Dividend: The Role of the Diaspora as Actors of Change in the Gambia
- Chapter 4 Engaging Youth to Address Sexual Violence in India
- Chapter 5 Putting the African Girl at the Centre of Demographic Change Programmes
- Chapter 6 From Incarceration to Transformation: Ex-Gang Members as Actors of Change in Los Angeles
- Chapter 7 African Continental Youth Policy as a Tool for Harnessing the Demographic Dividend
- Chapter 8 Digital Mindfulness for Indian Millennials
- Chapter 9 Lessons from Africa: What Can a Community of Pastoralists Offer the International Cooperation Community?
- Chapter 10 Revisiting Democracy: Intersectionality, Youth and the Imperative of ‘Climate Justice’ – Sardinia’s ‘Europe Day’
- Acknowledgements
- Index
Summary
Last month, I was sexually assaulted on my college campus by a man […] I can vividly recall that at the happenstance of the incident, there were nine seconds of processing what I went through. I remember gathering up all my courage, running and informing the guards. And we caught hold of the man.
Although I felt very brave throughout the entire period for taking action, I cannot ever forget those few nine seconds which back then seemed like an eternity of me debating what to do over and over again, whether to take a stand for myself or just to ignore it. And I must tell you this, all the Safecity workshops went in a flash before me in those pivotal nine seconds that I realised it was the time for me to practise what I had been preaching. I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for believing in the 18-year-old me, two years ago. Hadn't it been for Safecity, I might have dealt with this incident very differently.
–Email from A.S., 29 March 2019This was an email I received last year from a young woman who had started off as a volunteer and then joined the team of the NGO I run as a programme officer. At the time, she was studying for her master's programme at a premier college in Mumbai, India. The email was extremely moving and brought tears to my eyes because helping people like her who know their rights and options for dealing with harassment is exactly the essence of our work at Red Dot Foundation (Safecity). We work tirelessly to make public spaces safer for women and girls through education, crowdsourced data and community engagement.
Sexual violence is a global pandemic, and in India, it is a barrier to women's empowerment. According to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB, 2018, p. 7), a rape occurs somewhere in India every 18 minutes. This violence has taken a toll on the physical, psychological and economic development of women and girls. The McKinsey Global Institute's ‘Power of Parity: Advancing Women's Equality in Asia Pacific’ report (2018) states that in a best-case scenario, India could add US$770 billion to its GDP if it succeeded in advancing women's equality. Violence against women and girls was listed as one of the barriers that prevented this advancement.
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- The Demographic Dividend and the Power of YouthVoices from the Global Diplomacy Lab, pp. 43 - 52Publisher: Anthem PressPrint publication year: 2021