Girls Safety Case 1.

    India ranks 133rd in the recently released Women, Peace, and Security Index. The detailed report is scheduled to be released on October 22nd by the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace, and Security, in collaboration with the National Geographic.

  Key Takeaways:

• The new global Women, Peace, and Security Index incorporates three basic dimensions of well- being—inclusion (economic, social, political); justice (formal laws and informal discrimination); and security (at the family, community, and societal levels)—and captures and quantifies them through 11 indicators.
• The report is released by Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace, and Security in partnership with National Geographic. 
• India ranks at a low 133rd spot in the index and hasn’t performed ‘best’ in any of the three categories of Inclusion, Security, and Justice.
• In the Women, Peace, and Security Index 2017-18, India ranked 131 out of 153 countries that covered around 98 percent of the world’s population. 

As per a study conducted in 2018, gender bias kills 2,39,000 girls every year in India. Moreover, the figure doesn’t include girls who are aborted simply for their gender.

Piteous Indeed, India Ranks Lower Than Saudi Arabia And Iran.

       Countries like Iran and Saudi Arabia, rank better than India in the index. It was only on June 24 this year, when women in Saudi were granted the right to drive. Imagine a country with such strict laws for women ranking better than India? This is definitely alarming for a developing country like ours if it wants to continue its pace towards development. Today, near to 50 percent population of India are women, and hence, no sort of development is possible without their inclusion and betterment.

Unsafe States for Women in India.

Other states where women are considered to be least vulnerable include Kerala, Mizoram, Sikkim and Manipur.

    According to the study, Goa has been rated as the safest state for women, with a GVI (Gender Vulnerability Index) score of 0.656. It has ranked first in terms of protection, fifth for education, sixth for health and survival and eighth for poverty.

    On the other hand, Bihar was found to be the most unsafe state for women, with a GVI score of 0.410. Women are believed to be the most vulnerable in the state, less healthy and poorer, as compared to other states in the country. The state also ranked the lowest in terms of education and protection.

Bihar was preceded by Delhi and Uttar Pradesh, with GVI score of 0.436 and 0.434 respectively.