UNBELIEVABLE!!!.. Don't wear skirts in India!

India's tourism minister is furiously backpedaling
after suggesting that women who visit India
shouldn't wear skirts for their own safety.
Mahesh Sharma made the comments over the
weekend while promoting a welcome kit that will
be handed out to tourists when they arrive in
India.
"There's a card in there listing the do's and
don'ts. Basic things like, 'Don't go out at night
alone.' 'Don't wear skirts.'"
The outrage was immediate. And for good
reason.
A string of sexual assaults against foreign
women has sullied India's reputation.
The country has amended its laws to broaden
the definition of rape to include any form of
penetration; it lists out strict punishments not
only for rape but also for sexual assault,
voyeurism and stalking.
But still, every high-profile case -- and there have
been several -- brings the question to the
forefront again: Is India doing enough to protect
women? Is it creating a strong enough deterrent
for crimes against women?
Backlash
For one thing, India is ill-equipped to process not
just sexual assaults and rape, but all kinds of
crime. It has a shortage of forensic laboratories;
one of the worst police-to-citizens ratios in the
world, and far fewer lawyers and judges than it
needs to process cases.
Critics lambasted the minister, saying his
comments put the onus on women, rather than
on a government that ought to do a better job of
improving security.


Source :cable news network
Edited by DANIEL IKECHUKWU EKWUNIFE