Amnesty attacks India's record on violence against women

Amnesty International today criticised India's failure to curb violence against women, citing the brutal Delhi gang-rape incident to higlight their plight.
"Public outcry at the gang-rape and subsequent death of a student in India highlighted the state's persistent failure to curb violence against women and girls," the international human rights organisation said in its annual report in reference to the brutal rape and murder of a paramedical student in Delhi last December.
As part of its annual assessment of human rights across the world, India featured alongside Pakistan and Afghanistan on the issue of violence against women, with the attack on Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousufzai in September last year receiving a specific mention.

"In Afghanistan and Pakistan, many women and girls continued to be barred from public life, and in some cases subjected to execution-style killings by the Taliban," the report added.
India was also singled out on the issue of death penalty, having resumed executions after an eight-year hiatus by hanging Pakistani national Ajmal Kasab in November 2012 for his involvement in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks.
"During the year, courts sentenced at least 78 people to death, raising the number of prisoners on death row to over 400," the human rights organisation noted.