Washington: <i>Time</i> magazine has listed what it calls "India's Rape Epidemic" as the ninth top world news story of 2013.
The popular US news magazine has mentioned the nationwide uproar over a number of rape incidents, especially following the brutal Delhi gang-rape in December 2012, and has noted that mass protests after the student was raped in a moving bus "demanded greater protection for women and swift justice."
<i>Time</i>has reported on the trial of the men arrested in the case and on the death penalty handed to four of them in September. "Subsequent incidents, including the rape of another 23-year-old girl in Mumbai, also drew widespread attention nationally and abroad, and the uproar has shone a necessary spotlight on India's notoriously patriarchal society," it says.
"It has also placed renewed scrutiny on the state of women's rights in the developing world where more than 2 million girls give birth before the age of 14," the magazine adds.
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The magazine lists "Bangladesh's Factory Disaster" which it calls "the worst industrial disaster in recent memory, killing over 1,100 workers" as its seventh top news story. On April 24, the Rana Plaza building had collapse on the outskirts of Bangladesh's capital Dhaka.
The popular US news magazine has mentioned the nationwide uproar over a number of rape incidents, especially following the brutal Delhi gang-rape in December 2012, and has noted that mass protests after the student was raped in a moving bus "demanded greater protection for women and swift justice."
<i>Time</i>has reported on the trial of the men arrested in the case and on the death penalty handed to four of them in September. "Subsequent incidents, including the rape of another 23-year-old girl in Mumbai, also drew widespread attention nationally and abroad, and the uproar has shone a necessary spotlight on India's notoriously patriarchal society," it says.
<i>Time</i> has listed "Syria's Civil War - and the War That Didn't Happen" as its top news story of the year. (Read: original story here)
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The magazine lists "Bangladesh's Factory Disaster" which it calls "the worst industrial disaster in recent memory, killing over 1,100 workers" as its seventh top news story. On April 24, the Rana Plaza building had collapse on the outskirts of Bangladesh's capital Dhaka.
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