India women’s commissioner criticised over response to Spanish tourist’s rape
The chief of India’s top women’s rights body is facing scrutiny for “victim-blaming” and “failing to act on complaints” of sexual assault in the wake of the gang-rape of a Spanish tourist in the country.
Rekha Sharma, the chairperson of India’s federal National Commission for Women (NCW), lashed out on Monday at a comment by US-based writer and journalist David Josef Volodzko who warned solo travellers of “unsafe” conditions in the country for women.
His comments were made in the context of the alleged gang-rape of a 28-year-old Spanish-Brazilian tourist and the physical assault of her 64-year-old husband where they had set up their tent for the evening on
