In 500 words.
If you saw an act of violence being committed against a woman in public space, would you step up and intervene?
Why/why not?
Answers
Violence against a woman in public:
I had never seen this type of violence, but I can express my feelings about it.
The first step is I will kick that person (he/she) and will protect the woman from him/her as because violence is not acceptable, and then will try to help her if she had any problems with them, not only men violates but women too violates so in case of a male I would drop him at his house.
violence, and almost as many have intervened in an incident of violence against women in public
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IANS
Published: 09 Mar 2021, 9:30 PM
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If you saw an act of violence being committed against a woman in a public space, would you step up and intervene? As per data from a recent report by Breakthrough India, 55.3 per cent have observed the discomfort of the woman/girl facing violence, and almost as many have intervened in an incident of violence against women in a public space.
"What I understand by bystander action is, you see something happening to someone and you're not comfortable with it, it might be overt or not, but at that point of time, speak out or try to come between the perpetrator and victim through some strategic move. Ally with the person going through the suffering," Sohini Bhattacharya, President and CEO, Breakthrough, explained to IANSlife. A swift and effective action by an onlooker can, then, prevent acts of violence, and possibly injury and even death.
A good example of this is Breakthrough's popular 'Bell Bajao' or 'Ring The Bell' campaign from 2008, which showed men and boys stepping up and ringing the bell to interrupt when they overheard domestic violence behind closed doors.
The latest survey on bystander intervention was conducted in states such as Jharkhand (Hazaribagh district), Bihar (Gaya district), Haryana (Jhajjar district), Delhi, Maharashtra (Mumbai), Telangana (Hyderabad) and Kolkata, covering over 721 respondents. Most participants, particularly women, identified violence as a broad term, consisting of physical, mental, verbal, and sexual abuse.