An ecumenical group of Christian women has condemned increasing incidents of violence against women in India and demanded making society safer for them. “In this dreadful situation of unbridled gender violence and sexual crimes, we demand a country that is safe and peaceful for Indian women and girls,” the Indian Christian Women Movement said in a press release on December 9.

The appalling manner in which women are subjected to horrendous sexual violence in India seems to be proving over and over again that this country is the most unsafe place for women in the world, the movement regrets. The perilous conditions in which Indian women live and the dismal record of steps taken to create a society where women and children are secure, explains why sexual crimes have become an everyday event.

What is very evident is the increasing climate of impunity against perpetrators; submerged in the deafening silence of those in power, the movement noted.

The movement listed recent incidents of attacks on women.

The horrific gang rape of a young woman veterinarian in Hyderabad.